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corpulency en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pjʊlənsi/

Etymology

From corpulence + -y or corpulent + -cy.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of corpulence.
   alt of corpulence
   • His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency. 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, “3”, in Through the Magic Door:
   • No man, however indulgent (as I am) to corpulency, ever worshipped a man as round as the sun or a woman as round as the moon. 1912, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Priest of Spring,”, in A Miscellany of Men:
   • the heaviness and corpulency of the water requiring a great force to divide it 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:

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