incorporeal
/ɪnkɔː(ɹ)ˈpɔːɹiəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something that is incorporeal.
Example Sentences
- "Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms / Reduced their shapes immense."
- "Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us."
- "The World is all viciſsitude and converſion. Nor is it onely true in Materials and Substances; but even in Spirits, in Incorporeals; […]"
- "The divine nature of the celeſtial bodies cannot be ſeen through the teleſcope, and incorporeals are not to be viewed with a microſcopic eye: […]"
- "Where the interest in a piece of land of one of six heirs to the deceased father’s estate was levied upon and it was claimed as a homestead, the Court said: “It is an incorporeal, and an incorporeal cannot be the object of the homestead act.”"
- "It is manifest that incorporeals are incapable of transfer by delivery. But urban praedial rights may be ceded in court, and rural ones may also be mancipated."
Etymology
From Latin incorporeus + -al. By surface analysis, in- + corporeal.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: la:incorporeus