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Fleshly vs Unchaste - What's the difference?

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Fleshly is a related term of unchaste.


As adjectives the difference between fleshly and unchaste

is that fleshly is corporeal or bodily while unchaste is not chaste; not continent; libidinous; lewd.

As an adverb fleshly

is (obsolete) carnally; sexually.

fleshly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • corporeal or bodily
  • * Denham
  • Fleshly bondage.
  • sensual; carnal; lascivious
  • * Bible, 1 Peter ii. 11
  • Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
  • worldly
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians i. 12
  • Fleshly wisdom.
  • (obsolete) animal; not vegetable
  • (Dryden)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) Carnally; sexually.
  • *:
  • *:Syr said Launcelot ye saye that that good kny?t is my sone That ou?test thow to knowe and no man better said the good man / For thow knewest the doughter of kyng Pelles flesshely / and on her thow begattest Galahad / And that was he that at the feest of Pentecost satte in the sege peryllous
  • unchaste

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not chaste; not continent; libidinous; lewd.
  • Derived terms

    * unchastely * unchasteness * unchastity

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