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Carnality

noun
1.
Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.  Synonyms: lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience, pruriency.






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"Carnality" Quotes from Famous Books



... the code—75 described as lewd and 14 as profane. An inspection of these specifications affords mirth of a rare and lofty variety; nothing could more cruelly expose the inner chambers of the moral mind. When young Witla, fastening his best girl's skate, is so overcome by the carnality of youth that he hugs her, it is set down as lewd. On page 51, having become an art student, he is fired by "a great, warm-tinted nude of Bouguereau"—lewd again. On page 70 he begins to draw from the figure, and his instructor cautions him that the female breast is round, not square—more ...
— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken

... his Lord on the spot, swearing that he did not know Him. Behold this same Peter on the day of Pentecost. He is charging home the murder of Christ. Fear is gone, and gone forever. He faces men and does not flinch an iota. Carnality, the source of cowardice, has been removed, and the weakling is turned into a Lord Nelson for bravery, and a Savonarola for faithfulness ...
— The Heart-Cry of Jesus • Byron J. Rees



Words linked to "Carnality" :   eroticism, amativeness, erotism, carnal, amorousness, sexiness



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