"communal body" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a collective of people working together or sharing responsibility for something, like a committee for a group or a network of local businesses. For example, "The members of the communal body voted to approve the project."
And yet, as the lilting Shaker song "Pretty Little Dove" points to, there is sustenance in a communal body, "a branch of union and love".
As Michael Philip Penn shows in Kissing Christians, this ritual kiss played a key role in defining group membership and strengthening the social bond between the communal body and its individual members.
The pious fiction of racial unity turned Japan and its colonies into an organic body called Asian community, rendering the colonized into not just colonial agents but organic parts that constituted one Asian communal body.
She said that the banning of extremist organizations, espe cially communal bodies, was being considered.
Belgium has undergone radical devolution since the 1980s in which federal power has been increasingly concentrated in a complex array of local and communal bodies.
Many Jewish communal bodies, particularly those running cultural programmes of all kinds, social action groups and informal educational organisations, are facing severe financial shortfalls.
The party said it would consult the main communal bodies as well as experts and academics, but groups such as the pro-Corbyn Jewish Voice for Labour have not been asked to give their views.
Unrepresented by the communal bodies who claim to speak for us.
One of the problems is that there's probably an in-built inclination in all voluntary communal defence bodies to interpret any threat as being extremely severe on the grounds of "better safe than sorry", or for fear that funds won't be forthcoming if the situation is not made to appear incredibly serious.
Third, in crucial texts Plato's moral ideals appear both austere and self-abnegating: the soul is to remain aloof from the pleasures of the body; communal life demands the subordination of individual wishes and aims.
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