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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