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sensuality|sɛnʃuːˈælɪtɪ|
Forms: 4–6 sensualite, (4–5 -litee, -lyte), 4 senswalyte, 5 sensewalite, 5–6 censualyte, 6 sensualytie, sensualitie, 6– sensuality.
[a. F. sensualité, ad. late L. sensuālitās, f. sensuālis sensual a. Cf. Sp. sensualidad, It. sensualità.]
†1. The part of the nature of man that is concerned with the senses; chiefly, the animal instincts and appetites; the lower nature as distinguished from the reason; also occas. the faculty of sensation. Obs.
a1340Hampole Psalter vi. 6 Þe neþer party of my saule þat is cald þe sensualite. Ibid. xxx. 11 My saule þat is my sensualite. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. 262 God sholde haue lordshipe ouer reson, and reson ouer sensualitee, and sensualitee ouer the body of man. c1420? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 6 How that I myght make Reason & Sensualyte in oon to acorde. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xxviii, It shall be mortyfyed & pyned in the sensualyte eyther by dyuers syknes or by felable tourment of the fende. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. lviii. 136 Who euere kepe himself so under, þat sensualite obeye to reson, & reson to me in all þinges, he shal be a very victour of himself. c1460Wisdom 135 in Macro Pl. 40 Þe on, sensualyte, Wyche ys clepyde þe flechly felynge. 1670Cressy 16 Revelat. Div. Love lvi. 145 That our sensuality by the vertue of Christs Passion, be brought up into the substance. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 596 The grand arcanum of the learned gourmand is the proper sequence of the viands, and the skilful interception of the glass, by which his sensuality is piqued.
†b. pl. Physical necessities and appetites. Obs.
1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 152 Such a gross Conceit of the Resurrection, as if our Bodies shou'd be in the same frail condition as now, and addicted to Sensualities.
†2. The lower or animal nature regarded as a source of evil; the lusts of the flesh. Also pl.
1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxviii. 73 This is the sensualite of men that draweth hym to synne and to bestly lustes. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 349 An other dethe when the sawle..despisethe and refusethe the unlawefulle movenges and sensualites of the body. 1450–1530Myrr. Our Lady 150 And that the reson desyreth, the sensualyte ageyne sayth. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. v. (Parl. Beasts) xlviii, Thow may brek sensualiteis heid And fleschlie lust away fra the sall fle. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) I. 83 Suffre not your soules damned and lost to be By vayne lust and carnall sensualyte. 1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 62 It pleaseth him to fortifie and strengthen vs, euen to ouercome..sensualitie.
†3. The following of the lower nature in preference to the higher; absorption in the things of sense. Obs.
c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 678 This is the wey of Resoun..But the tother..Ys..The wey of sensualyte, Which set his entente in al To thinges that be temporal. 1483Rolls of Parlt. VI. 240/2 Lede by sensuality and concupiscence. 1548Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 19 Preamble, Diverse..turnynge their knowledge therein to satisfye their sensualitye. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. vii. §1. 159 b, Wherby the mynd of man, voide from his own sensualitie of flesh, bendeth it selfe wholly to the will of Gods spirite.
¶b. Self-willed obstinacy. (Cf. sensual a. 3 c.) Obs.
1536R. Cowley in St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 370 Certain rynge leaders..applying moore to theire awne sensualities, singuler proffites, and affeccions, then to any good reason. 1538Ld. Butler Ibid. III. 95, I do take him to be..a man more mete to be governed, than to governe, for all his interprises be made upon his awne sensualitie, withowt thadvise..of thois that been put in trust by the Kingis Majestie. 1544Ibid. 502 But..what for ther owne pryvate censualyte to ther olde ravyne and customes, no doubte bothe the saide McCharties..woll joyne with hym.
4. Excessive fondness for, or vicious indulgence in, the pleasures of the senses.
c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 244 And yf be sensualyte..Synnyst dedly, thou xalt not therfore dyspeyre. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. I 3 b, O (quoth he) long haue I liued sworne brothers in sensualitie with one Esdras of Granado: fiue hundred rapes and murders haue we committed betwixt vs. 1599Shakes. Much Ado iv. i. 62 Those pampred animalls, That rage in sauage sensualitie. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 7 Loose and dissolute persons, abandoned to all sensualitie. 1685R. Baxter Paraphr. N.T. 1 Tim. v. 23 b, To use Wine, yea, much Wine or strong Drink for meer appetite, instead of a little for health, is sinful sensuality. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables ccxvii. 190 Here's a Reproof to Men of Sensuality and Pleasure. 1754Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. xiv. 394 Sense produces no Sensuality, till it warms the Affections with the Pleasures of the World. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 6 May (1815) 70 He owns himself addicted to the delights of the stomach, and often jokes upon his own sensuality. 1779Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. (1787) IV. 92 That he loved too well to eat, is certain; but that his sensuality shortened his life will not be hastily concluded. 1845Kitto Cycl. Bibl. Lit. I. s.v. Ecclesiastes, Unrestrained merriment and giddy sensuality belong to those vanities which our author enumerates. 1879Froude Cæsar ii. 16 The once hardy, abstemious mode of living degenerated into grossness and sensuality.
b. pl.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 8 The ignorante men wol not abstyne them from their sensualitees. 1599Davies Nosce Teipsum 100 Marre not her [sc. thy soul's] sense with Sensualities. 1803Med. & Phys. Jrnl. IX. 321 Those capable of indulging in the pleasures and sensualities of a luxuriant table. 1817Coleridge ‘Blessed are ye that sow’ 66 note, Sensualities which both in sort and degree it would be libelling their Brother-beasts to call bestial.
†c. In innocent sense (as an oxymoron): A sensuous gratification or pleasure. Obs.
1604T. Wright Passions v. ii. 165 Euen..most devout men benefit their soules..with the sweetnesse of musicke..with this sacred sensualitie and pleasant path which leadeth to the fountaine of spirituall comfort. 1900Westm. Gaz. 1 Dec. 8/1 A Poet Laureate readily tolerated what he called ‘the most innocent of sensualities’ [snuff-taking].
5. spec. Lasciviousness, unchastity.
1463Ashby Poems i. 171 Yef thow tak a wyfe to thy freelte Ryght thoutfull thow art..Yef thow lyue aftyr censualyte, That ys acursyd and vnthryfty lyf. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. viii. 151 But best it is that he maryed be For to eschewe all yll censualyte. 1567Gude & Godlie B. 197 Preistis..leif zour foule Sensualitie. a1618Raleigh Mahomet (1637) 14 Taxing his sensualitie and drunkennesse. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. I. i. 150 Judging the sensuality of a nation by its statistics of illegitimate births. 1879Froude Cæsar xii. 154 The gluttony, the drunkenness, and the viler forms of sensuality. |