corporeity

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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

But all bodies have the same form, corporeity.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Or thus: Man is every thing which possesses such and such attributes: Man is every thing which possesses corporeity, organization, life, rationality, and certain peculiarities of external form.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

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 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