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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
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 […]
c. 1721, Aaron Hill, The Fatal Extravagance, London: T. Jauncy, Epilogue, The Bard, not carnal-minded,—say the Curious, How come th’ unfleshly Folks, to be so furious?
[…] her tears fell on his arm the while, unheeded—except by those unfleshly eyes, with which they say the very air is thronged.
[…] from its unfleshly character, as the women remember today, the spirituality of camp love became even more profound.
Use unfleshly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unfleshly means Not pertaining to or devoted to the flesh or the body; not physical..
Common synonyms include spiritual.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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 […]
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