creaturely
Americanadjective
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“And can we hang on to the part of us that is creaturely, a part of nature and in person?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
“The word feral does not mean wild, but rewild, a creaturely life once free and then tamed, confined, and broken free again.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
It renders beluga caviar indistinguishable from tinned ham, a duchess as creaturely as a dog.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2018
They were sometimes creaturely and sometimes “themselves,” chattering and laughing theatrically.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2012
When we are living altogether in a creaturely, natural, or unregenerated way, absorbed in the ambitions and interests of a worldly life, we are perhaps content.
From The Romance of the Soul by Lilian Staveley
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