Crossword clues for carnality
carnality
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carnality \Car*nal"i*ty\, n. [L. carnalitas.] The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind.
Because of the carnality of their hearts.
--Tillotson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "sensuality," from Late Latin carnalitas, from Latin carnalis (see carnal). Meaning "state of being flesh, fleshliness" is from mid-15c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being carnal. 2 A preoccupation with sexual desire.
WordNet
n. feeling morbid sexual desire [syn: prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness]
Usage examples of "carnality".
Cardinal Noncire, his tutor back at Savroix, had warned him that his fellow fosters might already be well versed in the coarsest habits of carnality.
Rembrandt carnality, served as his anchor in this omniverse bereft of absolutes.
He was not opposed to carnality, although the Writ cautioned against impropriety and unnaturalness.
And Rose, instinctive as she undoubtedly was, followed her instinct so far as to take on his hard-headed and merry carnality, and made a good marriage soon after she left school.
In a vast subcampus chamber of his own devising, lit by flambeaux and known to none but himself, he would keep them prisoner, not a stitch among them, and perpetrate at his whim exquisitest carnalities upon whom he chose.
Yes, she must seduce her own husband, overwhelm him with carnalities of every description, even Conscious Depravities.
And I believed you would be a blushing bride, new come to carnality.
After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage, Godfrey Waterhouse IV was born, in Murdo, South Dakota, to Blanche, the wife of a Congregational preacher named Bunyan Waterhouse.