bodiless
adjEtymology From Middle English bodyles, bodiles, equivalent to body + -less.
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Lacking a body; incorporeal.
- Near-synonyms: disincarnate, disembodied
- Ever and anon the cheek wore a deeper crimson, and the dark eyes filled with sudden fire, as he felt the idea clothe itself in words tangible to the many, as its bodiless presence had previously been to himself.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 162–163:
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- Be satisfied that I will not have done with thee until I have taken away thy life, and sent thy soul squealing bodiless into the unknown.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21:
- Derived terms
- bodilessly, bodilessness