Obs. rare. [f. BODY + -NESS.] The state or quality of having bodily form; corporeity, material condition.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VIII. xl. In what maner wise þey beþ medlid togederes, askes and water, þe water abideþ in his bodiness [1535 corporalnesse].
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 100. A least bitling is made as much for cleaving, if it had but a wherewith to be cloven; its leastness, not its bodiness forbidding it.
