Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being carnivorous or flesh-eating.
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- noun The quality of being a
carnivore .
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Examples
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Ribs are one of the great pleasures of carnivorousness, and simplicity itself to prepare, as long as you cook them slow enough to melt the hard-working meat that makes them so tasty, and don't try to get too fancy with the marinade: this is a cut that really doesn't need it.
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Ribs are one of the great pleasures of carnivorousness, and simplicity itself to prepare, as long as you cook them slow enough to melt the hard-working meat that makes them so tasty, and don't try to get too fancy with the marinade: this is a cut that really doesn't need it.
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Even as feedlots and processing plants began springing up in the Midwest at major railroad junctions, and profits and sovereignty over beef breeding and feeding shifted from ranchers to industrialists, cattlemen in the Wild Horse Desert remained convinced that if they could breed better beef, they could stem the tide of industry and restore the proper order of civilized carnivorousness: land, cattle, dinner.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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I wanted to crave healthy foods as well as fatty, sugary crap, and to discover what it felt like to live on the flipside of carnivorousness.
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For Hegel, Buddhists eat themselves (toe-sucking) and yet they abstain from carnivorousness, and from virility.
Hegel on Buddhism 2007
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There are some oddities: Beatrix Potter is upbraided for concealing the awful truth about bacon in The Tale of Pigling Bland, whereas any schoolboy knows that she could be positively ghoulish about human and other carnivorousness — see especially The Tale of Mr. Tod, but also Peter Rabbit.
The Omnivore 2007
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There are some oddities: Beatrix Potter is upbraided for concealing the awful truth about bacon in The Tale of Pigling Bland, whereas any schoolboy knows that she could be positively ghoulish about human and other carnivorousness — see especially The Tale of Mr. Tod, but also Peter Rabbit.
The Omnivore 2007
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But underneath that is a series of situations designed to explore every possible degree of carnivorousness.
Archive 2008-02-01 Neth 2008
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But underneath that is a series of situations designed to explore every possible degree of carnivorousness.
Neth Space Neth 2008
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Given teh tricksiness ov teh cats and teh werewoofs, and the ….carnivorousness …
No…..eye iz sik - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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