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    Yes,' said Harry, 'because —' 'A corporeal Patronus?†  (source)
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    High above on the balcony, like a soul tearing free of its corporeal restrains, a luminous pyre of flame erupted from the camerlegno's center.†  (source)
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    That was the moment they'd verified his corporeal identity.†  (source)
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    Alberto continued: "According to Berkeley, my own soul can be the cause of my own ideas—just as when I dream—but only another will or spirit can be the cause of the ideas that make up the 'corporeal' world.†  (source)
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    Merely something incorporeal, intangible?†  (source)
    incorporeal = not having material or physical form
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incorporeal means not and reverses the meaning of corporeal. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    and the man who should not have been there at all, who was too old to be there at all, both in years and experience: that mental and spiritual orphan whose fate it apparently was to exist in some limbo halfway between where his corporeality was and his mentality and moral equipment desired to be—an undergraduate at the University, yet by the sheer accumulation of too full years behind him forced into the extra-academnic of a law class containing six members;†  (source)
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    It would have been altogether optional but for the orders of the landlady, a person who sat in the bar, corporeally motionless, but with a flitting eye and quick ear, with which she observed and heard through the open door and hatchway the pressing needs of customers whom her husband overlooked though close at hand.†  (source)
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    Their incorporeality made them invisible Yet each step they took left the print of a foot.†  (source)
    incorporeality = a state lacking material or physical form
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incorporeality means not and reverses the meaning of corporeality. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Because they're mostly noncorporeal, partly, but nobody knows exactly why.†  (source)
    noncorporeal = not having physical form
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncorporeal means not and reverses the meaning of corporeal. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    "Jude, I want you to kiss me, as a lover, incorporeally," she said, tremulously nestling up to him, with damp lashes.†  (source)
    incorporeally = in a manner that lacks material or physical form
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incorporeally means not and reverses the meaning of corporeally. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    If you summon him, his spirit form will come to you but his corporeal self will remain bound to the jagged rocks of Duduael.†  (source)
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    The orb was incorporeal, but it pushed against his hand the way a swift stream of water might.†  (source)
    incorporeal = not having material or physical form
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    It broke down, it vanished into that old impotent logic and morality which had betrayed him before and what day might it have been, what furrow might he have stopped dead in, one foot advanced, the unsentient plow handles in his instantaneous unsentient hands, what fence panel held in midair as though it had no weight by muscles which could not feel it, when he realised that there was more in his problem than just lack of time, that the problem contained some super-distillation of this lack: that be was not past sixty and that possibly he could get but one more son, had at best but one more son in his loins, as the old cannon might know when it has just one more shot in its corporeality.†  (source)
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