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carnality|kɑːˈnælɪtɪ|
[ad. L. carnālitās (Augustine), f. carnāl-is. Cf. F. charnalité.]
1. The state of being flesh; fleshly condition, fleshliness; fleshiness.
a1400Cov. Myst. (1841) 114 Parfyte God and parfyte man, Havyng alle schape of chyldly carnalite. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 82 b, This vertue toke from Hely the prophete all carnalite, and made hym apte..to be lyfted up to god in the fyry chare. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. v. 240 His carnallity and corporall existence. 1881Daily News 31 Jan. 2/1 The carnality of Nana's beauty, which would have been to the taste of Rubens.
2. a. Sensuality, indulgence of the ‘flesh’ or body with its appetites. b. Carnal intercourse.
c1440Gesta Rom. i. xlvi. 158 Thow hast slepte to longe in the slepe of carnalite. 1483Caxton Cato D iij, In carnalitees and in many vyces delectable and swete to the persone. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. ix. 200 He may give up himself to lewd carnality. 1720Gay Equivocation, Marriage at best Is but carnality profest. 1866J. Murphy Comm. Ex. xxiii. 24 To bury all moral feeling in the grave of carnality.
3. a. The state of being unspiritual or unregenerate; unspirituality, worldliness. b. concr. A carnal thing, action, etc.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 129/1 Many doo almesses that abyde in theyr carnalytees. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xix, 154 b, The carnalitie of the lawe. 1660N. Ingelo Bentivolio I. (1682) 90 He exploded Reason as a meer Carnality. 1684Charnock Attrib. God (1834) I. 252 Spirituality is the genius of the Gospel, as carnality was of the law. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. iii. §2. 234 Mankind..tending ever from Carnality to Spirituality. 1751G. Lavington Enthus. Method. & Papists Comp. (1754) II. 155 The most infamous Carnalities. 1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. x. (1857) 153 The deadness and carnality of the church at this..time. 1879C. Rossetti Seek & F. 254 Christ saw that great company approach whom he fed by a miracle..and whom later he rebuked for carnality. |