Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Carnality; the indulgence of carnal appetites.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The state of being carnal; carnality; sensualism.

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  • noun The state of being carnal; carnality; sensualism.

Etymologies

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carnal +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Am listening to (these songs have nothing to do with my current state of carnalism):

    natinski Diary Entry natinski 2001

  • If carnalism could furnish content, one would think George would have found it.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • Papias, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Cyprian, among the earliest Fathers, all held the doctrine of a millennial kingdom on earth; not till millennial views degenerated into gross carnalism was this doctrine abandoned. that he should deceive -- so A.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • What remembrances come to me, looking backward to this period of our terrific national carnalism!

    T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Mrs. T. de Witt Talmage 1867

  • I have thought it well thus to preface what I have to say about these masters, partly because critics of the modern stamp, trusting more to their subjective impressions than to authoritative records, have painted the moral characters of Guido and Domenichino in lurid colors, and also because there is certainly something in their work which leaves a painful memory of unhealthy sentiment, impassiveness to pain, and polished carnalism on the mind.

    Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

  • But this confounding of profane with sacred, of the rudest carnalism with a mystic tendency -- "

    The Argonauts Eliza Orzeszkowa 1876

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