All 3 Uses
carnal
in
Winesburg, Ohio - by Sherwood Anderson
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- The minister almost wept with joy at this deliverance from the carnal desire to "peep" and went back to his own house praising God.†
Chpt 13 *
- For weeks he would go along scarcely thinking of the school teacher and telling himself that he had conquered the carnal desire to look at her body.†
Chpt 13
- I will fly in the face of all men and if I am a creature of carnal lusts I will live then for my lusts.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(carnal) sexual, or related to the body or physical desire (in contrast to spiritual desires or higher ideals)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Carnal knowledge is a common expression referencing experience with sexual intercourse.