Antonyms for fleshly


Grammar : Adj
Spell : flesh-lee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈflɛʃ li


Definition of fleshly

Origin :
  • Old English flæsclic; see flesh (n.) + -ly (1).
  • adj lecherous, desiring sex
  • adj bodily
Example sentences :
  • For the moment, she forgot his hopeless durance in fleshly walls.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • Colonel Bishop halted to consider her, shading his eyes with his fleshly hand.
  • Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
  • If the yearning of a fleshly love is gone, you are without love, without obligation.
  • Extract from : « Romola » by George Eliot
  • How often the fleshly mind has usurped His place in Thy worship!
  • Extract from : « Holy in Christ » by Andrew Murray
  • In a moment the fleshly image receded, it sank back into the darkness.
  • Extract from : « The Flaw in the Crystal » by May Sinclair
  • Now she found that it was no fleshly bond which united her to the knight.
  • Extract from : « In The Fire Of The Forge, Complete » by Georg Ebers
  • My tears flow because of no fleshly anguish: I pardon my enemies.
  • Extract from : « Vittoria, Complete » by George Meredith
  • This being is compound, having a fleshly and a spiritual side.
  • Extract from : « Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel » by Frank G. Allen
  • Men of fleshly minds, in the nature of things, have no place in it.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Galatians » by G. G. Findlay
  • He is now the poet of the fleshly, albeit an interpreter of its beauties.
  • Extract from : « Iconoclasts » by James Huneker

Synonyms for fleshly

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