corporeity
Example Sentences
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The less comely and inferior parts of that fiery corporeity were veiled lest they should be seen by the Eyes that see all things.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren
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
It is the corporeity reduced to its mere ideality; and so far only does corporeity belong to the soul as such.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Gnostics and other cultured men were satisfied, but the lower classes wanted a more tangible character, a physical corporeity.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
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 O. Henry
