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

Now as to telepathy, there is in the first place this to be said, that such a faculty must absolutely exist somewhere in the universe, if the universe contains any unembodied intelligences at all.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Scott preferred the concrete, and was stimulated by the particular book to express opinions that would never have come to his mind as the result of pursuing a train of unembodied ideas.

From Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Ball, Margaret

Agency, free, of unembodied spirits, 8, 17;   of man, 17, 29.

From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward