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carnality

[kahr-nal-i-tee] / ˌkɑrˈnæl ɪ ti /


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His songs married carnality and spirituality, with an echo of the little boy singing in the gospel choir of his father’s church.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

At the same time, a Roman Catholic religiosity, fusing spirituality with carnality, permeates much of his work.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2021

Purcell’s stripped-down staging rarely visualizes Rivera’s depiction of a disintegrating city, redirecting focus to the dialogue’s poetic carnality, with everyone constantly worrying whether they’ll eat or be eaten.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2021

Arnett’s interest in the carnality of taxidermy, the extent to which it depends on touch, flows in part from her belief that the physical is political.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 21, 2019

Oftentimes that seemeth to be charity which is rather carnality, because it springeth from natural inclination, self-will, hope of repayment, desire of gain.

From The Imitation of Christ by Benham, William




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