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adverb

Fleshly adv. In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously. (Obs.)

adjective

Fleshly adj.

Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage."

Animal; not vegetable.

Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms."

Carnal; wordly; lascivious. "Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul."

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Etymology of 'Fleshly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fleshly" Quotes from Famous Books

... between the two clusters indicates how great is the difference when one is changed from being a proud, fleshly, corrupt man into a clean, holy, spiritual person; but the contrast also marks the grace of God as the transforming power. No matter what change was wrought in you at conversion, you cannot properly call yourselves fully sanctified ...

— Standards of Life and Service • T. H. Howard

... Americans' amazement. "No," he said, "I am not a cripple in a wheelchair. This tubular container holds no fleshly body. Inside of it is a mechanical heart which pumps artificial blood—blood purified by a process I will not describe—through my head. It also contains certain inner devices under my mental control, devices that take the place of human ...

— The Heads of Apex • Francis Flagg

... Helier). His appearance was not in his favour; there was something oily and fat about him that repelled me. Naturally being British-born and young I tried to give my repugnance a moral foundation; fleshly indulgence and laziness, I said to myself, were written all over him. The snatches of his monologues which I caught from time to time seemed to me to consist chiefly of epigrams almost mechanically constructed ...

— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris

... tender and fitter for concoction; so that at the same time it is sauce to the palate and physic to the body. But all other seafood, besides this pleasantness, is also very innocent for though it be fleshly, yet it does not load the stomach as all other flesh does, but is easily concocted and digested. This Zeno will avouch for me, and Crato too, who confine sick persons to a fish diet, as of all others the lightest ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

... forgotten, fleshly delights could not make her slothfull or slumbring in reuenge against Zadoch. Shee set men about him to incense and egge him on in courses of discontentment, and other supervising espialls, to plye followe and spurre for-warde those ...

— The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton - With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse • Thomas Nash

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