fleshhood

English

Etymology

flesh +‎ -hood

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɛʃhʊd/

Noun

fleshhood (uncountable)

1. The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation.
   • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     Thou who hast, Thyself,
     Endured this fleshhood, knowing how, as a soaked
     And sucking vesture, it would drag us down
     And choke us in the melancholy deep,
     Sustain me, that, with Thee, I walk these waves […]