Definition of "corpulency" [corpulency]

• Alternative form of corpulence. (noun)

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• "This is to compress the bowels and increase their absorption, and it thus removes one principal cause of corpulency, which is the looseness of the skin."
• "Their walk is a waddle, and they bulge with seaming corpulency."
• "I believe no age did ever afford more instances of corpulency than our own."