corporeity

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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

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

The corporeal was supposed co-essential with the antecedent of its corporeity.

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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