shapedness

shapedness
noun /ˈʃeɪpt̚nəs/
The quality of being shaped in the specified manner.

<span style="font-variant:small-caps">The Elephant</span>…[i]s reckoned the most intellectual animal in the creation after man. […] Nature, always impartial in the distribution of her gifts, has given this bulky quadruped a quick instinct nearly approaching to reason, in compensation for the uncouthness and ill-shapedness of his body.


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