incorporeally

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English

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Etymology

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From incorporeal +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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incorporeally (comparative more incorporeally, superlative most incorporeally)

  1. In an incorporeal manner; without physical form.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], London: [] William Rawley []; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee [], →OCLC:
      the sense of hearing striketh the spirits more immediately than the other senses , and more incorporeally than the smelling
    • 1922, Earl Lind, edited by Alfred W. Herzog, The Female-Impersonators, Part 8:
      I understand by "poetry" the version of things seen incorporeally; things spiritualized or with a halo around them; things as they exist in substance, in reality, back of their superficial or phenomenal presentation

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