corporeity

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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 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

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 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

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 Henry, O.

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