Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make carnal; debase to carnality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make carnal; to debase to carnality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
physical ormaterialistic , as opposed tospiritual
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture
- verb ascribe to an origin in sensation
- verb debase through carnal gratification
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Examples
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The former have been regarded, like their corresponding mental passions, as something of a lower and baser nature, tending to degrade and carnalize man by their physical appetites.
The Pivot of Civilization Margaret Sanger 1924
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Are paintings and carvings less likely to carnalize our hearts in our halls and banqueting-rooms than in our chapels?
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805
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The former have been regarded, like their corresponding mental passions, as something of a lower and baser nature, tending to degrade and carnalize man by their physical appetites.
Reasoned Audacity 2009
vanishedone commented on the word carnalize
New York Times: 'The effect is grotesque, of a feline Tony Soprano brutalizing and carnalizing Carroll’s delicate surrealism. I imagine it would give children nightmares.'
January 12, 2009