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名詞

corporality (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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 1227597986:

     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 260112239:

     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 ?