Unfleshly
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Not pertaining to or devoted to the flesh or the body; not physical.
"1683, uncredited translator, Ecclesiastical History by Evagrius Scholasticus, Book 4, Chapter 33, in The History of the Church from Our Lord’s Incarnation, to the Twelfth Year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, London: Han. Sawbridge, p. 493, This person lead an unfleshly life in the flesh, in a certain Monastery […]"
Example
More examples"1683, uncredited translator, Ecclesiastical History by Evagrius Scholasticus, Book 4, Chapter 33, in The History of the Church from Our Lord’s Incarnation, to the Twelfth Year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, London: Han. Sawbridge, p. 493, This person lead an unfleshly life in the flesh, in a certain Monastery […]"
Etymology
From un- + fleshly.
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