corpulency

English

Etymology

From corpulence +‎ -y or corpulent +‎ -cy.

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.