corpulence
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Old French corpulence, from Latin corpulentia.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
corpulence (countable and uncountable, plural corpulences)
- The characteristic or state of being corpulent.
- 1860, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “We Return to Unyanyembe”, in The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration […], volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, →OCLC, page 182:
- Corpulence is a beauty: girls are fattened to a vast bulk by drenches of curds and cream thickened with flour, and are duly disciplined when they refuse.
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Translations[edit]
characteristic or state of being corpulent
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin corpulentia.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
corpulence f (plural corpulences)
- corpulence (quality of being corpulent)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “corpulence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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