corporeity

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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

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

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

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

The corporeity of angels and devils is distinguished on the principle of rarum et densum, thin or thick.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac