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bodyship

bodyship noun: the quality, condition, form, structure, or makeup of a body (all senses); corpus; embodiment; anatomy.

Noun

bodyship (uncountable)

  1. The quality, condition, form, structure, or makeup of a body (all senses); corpus; embodiment; anatomy
    • [...] 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.1872, L R. E, The pace that kills, by L.R.E. - Page 141
    • And readers can bet precious good care was taken that its august bodyship did not suffer.1890, The Fanciers' Journal

Forms of bodyship

alternative formbodiship

Origin of bodyship

From body + -ship.

Questions about bodyship

What does bodyship mean?
Bodyship means the quality, condition, form, structure, or makeup of a body (all senses); corpus; embodiment; anatomy.
What part of speech is bodyship?
Bodyship is a noun.

Words near bodyship in the dictionary

  1. bodyshaper
  2. bodyshapers
  3. bodyshapes
  4. bodyshell
  5. bodyshells
  6. bodyship
  7. bodyshop
  8. bodyshops
  9. bodyside
  10. bodysides
  11. bodyslam

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