corporeity
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The Gnostics and other cultured men were satisfied, but the lower classes wanted a more tangible character, a physical corporeity.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.
I believe that the corporeity of our future life is essential to the perfection of it.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander
Finally, the draughtsman in full possession of a feeling for the corporeity of the object will determine his contour entirely from within, a procedure which is the exact opposite to that of his first beginnings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
Logically considered, however, there is but one genus of all bodies, since they are all included in the one notion of corporeity.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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