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Meanings of bodiless in English

Not having a material body.

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Having no trunk or main part.

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Examples for "bodyless"
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Was Hunter alive or had he been turned into a bodyless shadow?
Metro 2033
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So often, living with-Marcel, she had felt motionless, and, ironically, bodyless.
Winter’s Tale
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The faces of the bodyless cats had a strangely vacant expression, not one of them appearing to have suffered.
Kafka on the Shore
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But he was transfixed by the wonder of the bodyless voice and would not pay any attention to her directions, but continued to gape.
The Judge
Usage of bodiless in English
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Angels are bodiless spirits created to adore and enjoy God in heaven.
A Catechism of Christian Doctrine
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For the angels are the army of God, bodiless and happy souls.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
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The Twins are mere bodiless names that might have been eliminated altogether.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900
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I wrenched against his bodiless grip, but it was implacable as ever.
Cruel Beauty
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Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!
The Great Book of Amber
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Wherefore, then, dost thou deem me of the number of the bodiless?
The World's Desire
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They were at home in this bodiless space between the worlds.
Sister Mine
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Folks should not be on the road when the bodiless walk.
A Knight of the Nets
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But the bodiless would not be thus conjured out of existence.
A Guide to Stoicism
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First: That this host is made up of bodiless spirits only.
Satan
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Sophia saw a bodiless hand twitch at a curtain and vanish.
The Old Wives' Tale
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The Nameless gave a roar of frustration as it plunged, bodiless, into Dream.
Runemarks
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We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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The dreadful, bodiless hands groped in the darkness between himself and the exit!
Brood of the Witch-Queen
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Beholding Suka who was bodiless, those unclad aerial beings felt shame.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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I saw a hand, a bodiless hand, holding a white sheet of paper.'
The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont
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