[f. as prec. + -ITY.] The quality or state of being corporeal; bodily form or nature; materiality.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 157. Emancipated from the gabardine of corporeality.
1702. Echard, Eccl. Hist., III. iv. 375. He falsely maintained the Corporeality as well as the Traduction of the soul.
1829. Southey, Sir T. More (1831), I. 333. And assume corporeality as easily as form.
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., I. 801. The nature of the soul, whose corporeality he asserted.
b. humorously. Bodily substance; body.
1859. Sala, Gas-light & D., ix. 112. Put your head, and subsequently your corporeality, into the long low coffee or tap-room.
