corpulency

English

Noun

corpulency (countable and uncountable, plural corpulencies)

1. Alternative form of corpulence
   • Ray

     the heaviness and corpulency of water requiring a great force to divide it

   • 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 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.