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

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 Westbrook, Richard B.

Neither corporeity nor substance, as we understand these words, are necessarily, if at all, involved in personality.

From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by Evans, William

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