fleshly

Speech parts

1. fleshly - Adjective

2. fleshly - Adverb

4. fleshly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal.

Animal; not/vegetable.

Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine.

Carnal; wordly; lascivious.

In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously.

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If, for instance, a man had a godless father or son or brother, who became a hindrance to his faith and an obstacle to the life above, let him not live in fellowship or agreement with him, but let him dissolve the fleshly relationship on account of the spiritual antagonism. Clement of Alexandria

With thy coming Melody was come. This was thy lot, to feel, create, bestow, And that immeasurable life to know From which the fleshly self falls shrivelled, dead, A seed primeval that has forests bred. George Eliot

Before the soul can see, the harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

In every saint there lurks an arrant knave, the marrow of all holyness being absolute hellishness. That is why our Saviours are of no awail, their remedies being too strong for common man, who is the puppet of his fleshly appetite and not a sinner. Albert Caraco

Tripitaka stepped lightly ashore. He had discarded his earthly body; he was cleansed from the corruption of the senses, from the fleshly inheritance of those bygone years. His was now the transcendent wisdom that leads to the Further Shore, the mastery that knows no bounds. Arthur Waley

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