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Definition of Disembodies
1. disembody [v] - See also: disembody
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disembodies
Literary usage of Disembodies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"There is perhaps no better test of the true inward inspiration of a work than
this, that, from a certain point of view, it readily disembodies itself and ..."
2. The Romantic Movement in English Poetry by Arthur Symons (1909)
"... telling the secret which he was in the act of apprehending. n *x^ There are
two kinds of imagination, that which embodies and that which disembodies. ..."
3. Literary Essays by Richard Holt Hutton (1888)
"He never concentrates, like Tennyson, so that the imagination is at some pain to
follow all the touches crowded into little space ; he never disembodies, ..."
4. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1821)
"In the prosecution of this laudable scheme he disembodies himself, and takes upon
him the functions of a ghost. Subtle, who is averse to spirits (at least ..."
5. Didactics: Social, Literary, and Political by Robert Walsh (1836)
"Enthusiasm, the opposite of selfishness, disembodies—spiritualizes—kindles into
rapture—occasions emotions of triple depth and intenseness, which dignify ..."
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