Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an incorporeal manner; without body or embodiment; immaterially.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an incorporeal manner.
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- adverb In an
incorporeal manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A Manolo Blahnick blue satin pump, a gold metallic Dior gladiator platform, or a Jimmy Choo zebra print spiked high heel may allude to general style and wealth, but Cinda believes her shoe has the power to conjure, incorporeally into being, her and the particular experience she and a man shared while wearing them.
The Other Shoe 2010
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A Manolo Blahnick blue satin pump, a gold metallic Dior gladiator platform, or a Jimmy Choo zebra print spiked high heel may allude to general style and wealth, but Cinda believes her shoe has the power to conjure, incorporeally into being, her and the particular experience she and a man shared while wearing them.
The Other Shoe 2010
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Possibly the wooden countenance of Mr Silas Wegg was incorporeally before him at those moments, for he hit with intense satisfaction.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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For such is the nature of intellectual existences that they can mingle with one another and with bodies, incorporeally and invisibly.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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The struggle is titanic, for these magicians can slay and be slain corporeally and incorporeally with equal ease.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 15, 1920 Various 1898
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"Jude, I want you to kiss me, as a lover, incorporeally," she said, tremulously nestling up to him, with damp lashes.
Jude the Obscure 1896
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"Jude, I want you to kiss me, as a lover, incorporeally," she said, tremulously nestling up to him, with damp lashes.
Jude the Obscure 1894
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He thought that if the thief did not approach the tree incorporeally and invisibly, he would never be able to escape his sharp eyes.
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878
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Present from the first incorporeally in Leonardo's brain, dimly traced in the designs of
The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Walter Pater 1866
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Present from the first incorporeally in Leonardo's thought, dimly traced in the designs of Verrocchio, she is found present at last in Il Giocondo's house.
The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater 1866
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