Bodyship
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality, condition, form, structure, or makeup of a body (all senses); corpus; embodiment; anatomy uncountable
"[...] the gentleman entirely failed to appreciate the sacrifice the lady had made in having condescended from being nobody at all herself, except the pet and the spoilt child of her family, to marry him whose bodyship of any kind remained still to be made."
Example
More examples"[...] the gentleman entirely failed to appreciate the sacrifice the lady had made in having condescended from being nobody at all herself, except the pet and the spoilt child of her family, to marry him whose bodyship of any kind remained still to be made."
Etymology
From body + -ship.
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