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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The quality, condition, form, structure, or makeup of a body (all senses); corpus; embodiment; anatomy.
[...] the gentleman entirely failed to appreciate the sacrifice the lady had made in having condescended from being nobody at all herself, except the pet and the spoilt child of her family, to marry him whose bodyship of any kind remained still to be made.
And readers can bet precious good care was taken that its august bodyship did not suffer.
With essential power democratically held by the branches, and ' responsible bodyship ' in the hands of the districts, inevitably there have been questions about the activities and powers of the national centre.
A husband's proper concern is not his own "headship" but his wife's "bodyship".
[...] and to a husband and his wife, has provoked an inordinate preoccupation with a “chain of command” concept of headship, when the emphasis would more constructively and biblically be placed on an understanding of “bodyship”—that is, our unity and interdependence as one body, whether in marriage or in the larger family of God.
They, the tendencies, are practices for supreme impulse control—an S.O.S. beacon in motion, the ailments of my intelligence, and the neurotic behavioral signaling to the rest of the outside world that's hidden in my bodyship's automatism!
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Bodyship means The quality, condition, form, structure, or makeup of a body (all senses); corpus; embodiment; anatomy.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[...] the gentleman entirely failed to appreciate the sacrifice the lady had made in having condescended from being nobody at all herself, except the pet and the spoilt child of her family, to marry him whose bodyship of any kind remained still to be made.
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