fleshhood en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈflɛʃhʊd/
Etymology
From flesh + -hood.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation.
Thou who hast, Thyself, Endured this fleshhood, knowing how, as a soaked And sucking vesture, it would drag us down And choke us in the melancholy deep, Sustain me, that, with Thee, I walk these waves […]
1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC: