| 释义 |
† ˈbodiness Obs. rare.
[f. body n. + -ness.]
The state or quality of having bodily form; corporeity, material condition.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xl, In what maner wise þey beþ medlid togederes, askes and water, þe water abideþ in his bodiness [1535 corporalnesse]. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 100 A least bitling is made as much for cleaving, if it had but a wherewith to be cloven; its leastness, not its bodiness forbidding it. |