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bodiless, a.|ˈbɒdɪlɪs|
[f. body n. + -less.]
1. Having no body, no material form or being; incorporeal; without substance, unsubstantial.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. ii. (1495) 27 Angel is substancia intellectuall alway mouable . free and bodylesse. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 266 A vain bodylesse shew of fayth doth not iustifie. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. iv. 138 This is the very coynage of your Braine, This Bodilesse Creation extasie Is very cunning in. 1610W. Folkingham Art Survey ii. vi. 58 Gum-water, very thinne and bodilesse. 1733Swift Legion Club Wks. 1755 IV. i. 203 Phantoms bodiless and vain. 1868Robertson Serm. Ser. iv. xxix. 221 Man becomes for ever a bodiless spirit.
2. Wanting the trunk; trunkless.
1587Censure loyall Subj. (Collier) 9 My eies saw their traiterous harts burned, and bodilesse heads aduanced to view. 1810Southey Kehama xi. viii, Two winged Hands came in, Armless and bodyless. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 219 The bodiless cherubs on our churchyard stones.
Hence ˈbodilessness.
1847J. C. & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (series 1, ed. 3) 55 The living energy and definiteness and bodiliness of Homer's characters. 1869R. Wallis Delitzsch's Bibl. Pyschol. 513 In contradiction to..bodilessness. |