corporeity
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of corporeity
1615–25; < Medieval Latin corporeitās, equivalent to Latin corpore ( us ) corporeal + -itās -ity
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Ideas and passions of purely immaterial origin pervade every nerve with terrific intensity, and shake his encasing corporeity like an earthquake.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
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 Alexander Maclaren
Or thus: Man is every thing which possesses such and such attributes: Man is every thing which possesses corporeity, organization, life, rationality, and certain peculiarities of external form.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
And he moreover says, that when the inflammation is throughout, it lives and is an animal, but being again extinct and thickened, it is turned into water and earth and corporeity.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
The corporeal was supposed co-essential with the antecedent of its corporeity.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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