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Webster 1913 Edition
Fleshliness
Flesh′li-ness
,Noun.
The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites.
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fleshliness
FLESH'LINESS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
fleshliness
fleshliness
English
Noun
fleshliness (uncountable)
- (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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv: