corpulency

/ˈkɔː(ɹ)pjʊlənsi/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

"the heaviness and corpulency of the water requiring a great force to divide it"
"His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency."
"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."

From corpulence + -y or corpulent + -cy.

corpulencies (plural)

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How do you pronounce corpulency?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pjʊlənsi/.

What does corpulency mean?

Alternative form of corpulence.

Where does corpulency come from?

From corpulence + -y or corpulent + -cy.

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