corporality

English

Etymology

From Latin corporālitās. By surface analysis, corporal +‎ -ity.

Noun

corporality (countable and uncountable, plural corporalities)

1. (obsolete) The state of being or having a body (being corporal/corporeal); bodily existence.

   Synonym: (the more common term for the concept) corporeality

   Antonym: ethereality

   • 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:

     there is one Mundane spright / And body, vitall corporality We have from hence.

2. (obsolete) A confraternity; a guild.
   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:

     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 ?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “corporality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)