Fleshliness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Indulgence in concerns of the flesh; bodily appetites. uncountable

    "when strong passion, or weake fleshlinesse / Would from the right way seeke to draw him wide, / He would through temperance and stedfastnesse, / Teach him the weake to strengthen [...]."

Example

More examples

"when strong passion, or weake fleshlinesse / Would from the right way seeke to draw him wide, / He would through temperance and stedfastnesse, / Teach him the weake to strengthen [...]."

Etymology

From fleshly + -ness.

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