corporeity
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of corporeity
1615–25; < Medieval Latin corporeitās, equivalent to Latin corpore ( us ) corporeal + -itās -ity
Example Sentences
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The Gnostics and other cultured men were satisfied, but the lower classes wanted a more tangible character, a physical corporeity.
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The Soul, when its corporeity has been moulded and made thoroughly its own, finds itself there a single subject; and the corporeity is an externality which stands as a predicate, in being related to which, it is related to itself.
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In this identity of interior and exterior, the latter subject to the former, the soul is actual: in its corporeity it has its free shape, in which it feels itself and makes itself felt, and which as the Soul's work of art has human pathognomic and physiognomic expression.
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Implicitly the soul shows the untruth and unreality of matter; for the soul, in its concentrated self, cuts itself off from its immediate being, placing the latter over against it as a corporeity incapable of offering resistance to its moulding influence.
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Another, where affections originating in the mind and belonging to it, are in order to be felt, and to be as if found, invested with corporeity.
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