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• n  the property of excessive fatness

• Does corpulence make a difference? It does; 52.
• Of medium size and corpulence, with heavy, mustached face, he lives in Cap Ferrat, France, travels widely, stutters, has effeminate men friends.
• A tennis fanatic when he was younger, his increasing corpulence later became a preoccupation, she says, so he exercised daily by swimming laps.

• overweight
• stoutness
• adiposis

Quotes

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• William Banting in Jamaica Observer
  As long ago as l864 a Dr William Banting wrote a pamphlet entitled "A Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public" promoting a low-carbohydrate diet that enabled him to lose 46 pounds in a year.