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bodily
(bod¦ily)
Pronunciation:
/ˈbɒdɪli/
adjective
[
attributive
]
of or concerning the body:
children learn to control their bodily functions
material or actual as opposed to spiritual or incorporeal:
God is not present in bodily form
adverb
1
by moving a person’s or one’s own body with force:
he hauled her bodily from the van
2
in one mass; as a whole:
he built ships on the Atlantic shore, transporting them bodily over the hills and sailing them off into the Pacific
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