Meanings
plural corpulencies
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of corpulence.
the heaviness and corpulency of the water requiring a great force to divide it
1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC2 more examples
His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency.
1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, “3”, in Through the Magic DoorNo 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.
1912, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Priest of Spring,”, in A Miscellany of Men
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From corpulence + -y or corpulent + -cy.
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