What is the meaning of bodily?

adjective

  • Of or relating to or belonging to the body.
    • usage: "a bodily organ"; "bodily functions"
  • Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit.
    • usage: "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness"
  • Having or relating to a physical material body.
    • usage: "bodily existence"

adverb

  • In bodily form.
    • usage: "he was translated bodily to heaven"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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