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incorporeal

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Definition:
not having a physical existence; intangible

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He did not question her ideas; he accepted all her tastes; he was rather becoming her mistress than she his. She had tender words and kisses that thrilled his soul. Where could she have learnt this corruption almost incorporeal in the strength of its profanity and dissimulation?

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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the affected, wordy style that a schoolboy might use to a fancied, incorporeal sweetheart.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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 Queen. Alas, how is't with you,
  That you do bend your eye on vacancy,
  And with th' encorporal air do hold discourse?

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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