corporeity

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Finally, the draughtsman in full possession of a feeling for the corporeity of the object will determine his contour entirely from within, a procedure which is the exact opposite to that of his first beginnings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

Of all such forms the human is the highest and the true, because only in it can the spirit have its corporeity and thus its visible expression.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

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

Here, forsooth, he plainly says, that the inanimate parts of the world are by inflammation turned into an animated thing, and that again by extinction the soul is relaxed and moistened, being changed into corporeity.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

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 Alger, William Rounseville