bowels

Definitions

1. 1

   The deepest or innermost part.

   • down in the bowels of the Earth
2. 2

   The concept or quality that defines something at its very core.

   • the project’s bowels
3. 3

   The intestines.

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   1. 4

      Compassion, sympathy.

      • If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
      • Have you no Bovvels, no Tenderneſs, my dear Lucy, to ſee a Huſband in theſe Circumſtances?
   2. 5

      The body as the source of offspring.

      • And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it?
      • What do they whisper thee, Child of my bowels, Anselm?
   3. 6

      plural of bowel

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