Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The state or quality of being incorporeal; immateriality.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being incorporeal; disembodied existence; immateriality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being incorporeal; immateriality.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state or characteristic of being incorporeal.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Medieval Latin incorporeitās, from Latin incorporeus, incorporeal; see incorporeal.]

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Examples

  • Thought of the divine incorporeity was suggested by absence of any altar-image.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • Thought of the divine incorporeity was suggested by absence of any altar-image.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

  • Zeus-given incorporeity was the one person who had a good view of the scene at large, you must pardon me for having withheld the veil of indirect narration.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • He must strive to come in contact with the spiritual forms, which ascend in increasing degrees of incorporeity from the ideas of the individual soul up to the Actual Intellect itself, above which are only the forms of celestial bodies, that is to say, spiritual substances which, while they have an important cosmic function, have no relation to moral excellence in man.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • And so, as I by my Zeus-given incorporeity was the one person who had a good view of the scene at large, you must pardon me for having withheld the veil of indirect narration.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • The arguments for the existence, unity, and incorporeity of God divide the Arabic philosophers into two schools.

    Jewish Literature and Other Essays Gustav Karpeles 1878

  • But alas! nothing save incorporeity could have availed her.

    St. George and St. Michael Volume II George MacDonald 1864

  • But alas! nothing save incorporeity could have availed her.

    St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864

  • If incorporeity is the motive-power of this nature, it no longer exists independently; it, in fact, exists no longer than the subject to which it is inherent subsists.

    The System of Nature, Volume 2 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756

  • Has the multitude of subtle distinctions, with which theology in some countries is filled throughout; have the words spirit, immateriality, incorporeity, predestination, grace, with other ingenious inventions, imagined by sublime thinkers, who during so many ages have succeeded each other, actually had any other effect than to perplex things; to render the whole obscure; decidedly unintelligible?

    The System of Nature, Volume 2 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756

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