corpulency

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From corpulence + -y or corpulent + -cy.

Referring to the poet’s corpulency. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer
He gorges himself among them almost to bursting; he can scarcely fly for corpulency. — McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, William Holmes McGuffey
His corpulency, at this time universally reported to be excessive, was by no means remarkable. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

fleshiness, obesity

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