corporeity
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of corporeity
1615–25; < Medieval Latin corporeitās, equivalent to Latin corpore ( us ) corporeal + -itās -ity
Example Sentences
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Neither corporeity nor substance, as we understand these words, are necessarily, if at all, involved in personality.
From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by Evans, William
That strange and beautiful psychology which he employs, with its evanescent delicacies, has not sufficient corporeity.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
Three inches of well-nourished corporeity, defended from the winter winds by dingy linen, intervened between his vest and trousers.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by Henry, O.
And this is the strength of the Christian conception of the future life, that corporeity is the end and goal of the redeemed man.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI by Maclaren, Alexander
The two ideas are correlative, you cannot part them—suffering and reluctance, a perfectly innocent, natural, inevitable, human instinct, inseparable from corporeity, that makes men recoil from pain.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander
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