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English
Etymology
From Latin corporālitās. By surface analysis, corporal + -ity.
Noun
corporality (countable and uncountable, plural corporalities)
- (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 Flesher, for William Morden , →OCLC:there is one Mundane spright / And body, vitall corporality We have from hence.
- (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 ?