Bodily
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bodily¹
- /ˈbɑdɪli/ US
- /ˈbɒdɪli/ UK
Sounds like bawdily (cot–caught merger)
Where it comes from
From Middle English bodily; equivalent to body + -ly.
adjective more bodily · most bodily
- Of, relating to, or concerning the body. His bodily deficiencies were a heavy burden to him.
- Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal. You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us.
- Real; actual; put into execution. Be brought to bodily act.
adverb
- In bodily form; physically, corporally. For in him dwelleth all the fulneſſe of the Godhead bodily.
- Pertaining to the whole body or mass; wholly. The papering of one side of the room had dropped down bodily, with fragments of plaster adhering to it, and almost blocked up the door.
- Forcefully, vigorously. He was thrown bodily out of the house.
Bodily²
proper noun Bodilys
- A surname.
