Both Uses of
ethereal
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- He would let her see, all those six years of intangible ethereal courtship, how little care he had for anything but as it bore upon the consummation.†
Chpt 49-51 *
- Bathsheba was in a very peculiar state of mind, which showed how entirely the soul is the slave of the body, the ethereal spirit dependent for its quality upon the tangible flesh and blood.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(ethereal) characterized by an air-like insubstantiality
or:
so delicate and insubstantial that it barely seems of this world -- often beautiful