unembodied

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In Arbery’s other plays, this sense of looming catastrophe lurks offstage, just beyond the lights, unembodied.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

One can admire or analyze them profitably, but whatever is outside the museum or gallery stays safely and discretely outside, unembodied, hypothetical at best.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2015

The 'truth embodied in a tale' has more emotional power than the unembodied truth, and the visual realisation of the central figure of the tale more power than the tale itself.

From Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Wallas, Graham

Hence, an unembodied spirit, if it be a holy personage, will be surrounded with a halo of resplendent glory, or brightness, above the brightness of the sun.

From Key to the Science of Theology by Pratt, Parley P.

The unembodied spirit, Dwelling alone, unmated, void of sense, Is impotent.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir