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Webster 1913 Edition


Fleshliness

Flesh′li-ness

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Noun.
The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fleshliness

FLESH'LINESS

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Noun.
Carnal passions and appetites.

Definition 2024


fleshliness

fleshliness

English

Noun

fleshliness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Indulgence in concerns of the flesh; carnality, bodily appetites.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
      when strong passion, or weake fleshlinesse / Would from the right way seeke to draw him wide, / He would through temperance and stedfastnesse, / Teach him the weake to strengthen [...].