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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
carnalize .
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Examples
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She had carnalized herself too completely, had made the inciting of the crowds, the sex, and the booze, and the language, the substance of her presence.
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973
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Thereafter commerce with boys only in the spirit ceased to be an end; the images were carnalized, stepped from their framework into the streets.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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For what concord can there be between a spiteful and devilish spirit, and the fountain of all love and goodness? between a sensual and carnalized one, that understands no other pleasures but only those of the flesh, and those pure and virgin spirits that neither eat nor drink but live forever upon wisdom, holiness, love and contemplation?
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Whereas such a carnalized, impure, drossy love as ours, can never turn itself unto God; will always decline, and shun that blessed Object.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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As to Davis, since his induction into the Rectory, he had gradually carnalized (to use one of his own favourite expressions); and, being grown sleek and contented, he preferred reposing in his arm-chair to storming in the pulpit, congratulating himself with having reformed the church, which he effected by removing every ornament as superstitious, stripping public worship of every decency, publicly burning the Common
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805
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With a still carnalized fancy, she adorned the heaven which she felt sure of eternally inhabiting, with the splendor and luxury she had enjoyed on earth, and thus tricked out a Mahommedan paradise rather than the pure and spiritual enjoyments of glorified beings.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805
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