arch. [f. FLESH sb. + -HEAD, -HOOD.] a. Fleshly state or condition. b. The condition of being in the flesh, or becoming flesh; incarnation.

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c. 1440.  Hylton, Scala Perf. (W. de W., 1494), II. xxx. The Soule myghte not that tyme for freelte of the flesshhede suffre it soo.

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1856.  Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, VII. 1030.

                    Thou [God] who hast Thyself
Endured this fleshhood.

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