What's the difference between bodiless and disincarnate?

Bodiless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no body.
  • (a.) Without material form; incorporeal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Silent patients cannot be represented by the words of bodiless advocates.
  • (2) Dizzying sensation of headlong movement, colours, whipping around corners and through narrow corridors.” Case lives for “the bodiless exultation of cyberspace”.

Disincarnate


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After describing and analyzing a healing session, the practices are shown to be deviant from conventional Spiritism in two directions: (1) they employ a technique, called apometry, that they claim makes possible the transportation of a part of the patient's body to the astral world where it is treated by disincarnate doctors who do past life regressions; and (2) although a conventional Spiritist disobsession is performed, the healers invoke rival Afro-Brazilian spirits who often are shown to have caused the patient's symptoms.

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