corporality en · NOUN
Etymology
From Latin corporālitās. By surface analysis, corporal + -ity.
Meanings
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable) The state of being or having a body (being corporal/corporeal); bodily existence.
there is one Mundane spright / And body, vitall corporality We have from hence.
1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable) A confraternity; a guild.
Whence may be guessed what their function was : was it to go about circled with a band of rooking officials , with cloakbags full of citations , and processes to be served by a corporality of griffonlike promoters and apparitors ?
1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| corporalities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |