Immaterial

Okay, this is the last word from Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.

Immaterial (im-uh-TEER-EE-uhl) [Latin im- without, not mÄteriÄlis; of, belonging to matter.]

adj.

  1. of no essential consequence; unimportant.
  2. not pertinent; irrelevant.
  3. not material; incorporeal; spiritual; having no material body or form.

Usage: Mr. Fletcher, retired, of the Treasury, Mrs. Gorham, widow of the famous K. C., approaached Him simply, and having done their praying, leant back, enjoyed the music (the organ pealed sweetly), and saw Miss Kilman at the end of the row, praying, praying, and, being still on the threshold of their underworld, thought of her sympathetically as a soul haunting the same territory; a soul cut out of immaterial substance; not a woman, a soul.

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