corpulency

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pjʊlənsi/

Noun

corpulency (countable and uncountable, plural corpulencies)

  1. Alternative form of corpulence
    • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
      the heaviness and corpulency of the water requiring a great force to divide it
    • 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, “3”, in Through the Magic Door:
      His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency.
    • 1912, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Priest of Spring,”, in A Miscellany of Men:
      No man, however indulgent (as I am) to corpulency, ever worshipped a man as round as the sun or a woman as round as the moon.
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