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

But the unembodied Justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

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.

Askest thou?—Thanks!—What marvel? they speak not With unembodied tongue! hermione.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John