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Carnally

Carnally \Car"nal*ly\, adv. According to the flesh, to the world, or to human nature; in a manner to gratify animal appetites and lusts; sensually.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
--Rom. viii. 6.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
carnally

late 15c., "sexually;" 1530s, "corporeally," from carnal + -ly (2).

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carnally

adv. In a carnal manner.

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carnally

adv. in a carnal manner

Usage examples of "carnally".

For a while grilling steaks for Pensacola maidens on the terrace of their hotel suite was a very profitable enterprise, carnally speaking.

He saw that his high hopes to get to know one of the nurses, perhaps even carnally, were not going to come to fruition.

Therefore this man figuratively represented the people of Israel, which was to lose the kingdom, Christ Jesus our Lord being about to reign, not carnally, but Spiritually.

And when he says that all flesh and all the earth shall be judged with His fire and sword, we do not understand the spiritual and holy to be included, but the earthly and carnal, of whom it is said that they "mind earthly things," 1417 and "to be carnally minded is death," 1418 and whom the Lord calls simply flesh when He says, "My Spirit shall not always remain in these men, for they are flesh.

When, therefore, he is come, he shall give a spiritual explanation of the law which the Jews at present understand carnally, and shall thus "turn the heart of the father to the son," that is, the heart of fathers to their children.

But if he loves her in the world’s fashion, carnally, as the disease of lust prompts him, and as the Gentiles love who know not God, even this the apostle, or rather Christ by the apostle, allows as a venial fault.

Derby Day in the Governor's Mansion and the Strangling of the Sloat Diamond If any person shall carnally know in any manner any brute animal, or carnally know any male or female person by the anus or by and with the mouth, or voluntarily submit to such carnal knowledge, he or she shall be guilty of a felony and shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than three years.

Taken her away, taken her carnally, taken her so that she would not be returned.

Alfgar told him we had sinned carnally while fleeing from the Vikings and now prayed God's forgiveness and blessing on our union.

She had only known two men carnally in her life, William Fraser and her husband.

Dorothea accused herself of some meanness in this timidity: it was always odious to her to have any small fears or contrivances about her actions, but at this moment she was seeking the highest aid possible that she might not dread the corrosiveness of Celia's pretty carnally minded prose.