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- verb Present participle of
sensualize .
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Examples
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Though their intoxication reveals the wounds culture inflicts, and their inebriation and eroticism illuminates a manic and ravenous turn away from those fractures, still, in drinking, eating, sensualizing, and stealing, these young women achieve a brief and exhilarating victory as they steal their bodies back.
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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We have already noted that in order for finite minds to perceive bodies, sensations of color and light must play an important role in ˜sensualizing™ and
Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God Nolan, Lawrence 2008
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-- A hand bath in cold water every morning will diminish those rampant sexual cravings, that crazy, burning, lustful desire so sensualizing to men by millions; lessen prostitution by toning down that passion which alone patronizes it, and relieve wives by the millions of those excessive conjugal demands which ruin their sexual health; besides souring their tempers, and then demanding millions of money for resultant doctor bills.
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Only when this monopolizing, enslaving, sensualizing impression has gone by, may what had been a point of pained and quivering animality expand once more to the dimensions of a human soul.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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-- A hand bath in cold water every morning will diminish those rampant sexual cravings, that crazy, burning, lustful desire so sensualizing to men by millions; lessen prostitution by toning down that passion which alone patronizes it, and relieve wives by the millions of those excessive conjugal demands which ruin their sexual health; besides souring their tempers, and then demanding millions of money for resultant doctor bills.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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That which begins in the heart ennobles the whole animal being, but that which begins in the inferior departments of our being is the most entire degradation and sensualizing of the soul.
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson
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They spoil it, however, by presently sensualizing this invisible again; that is to say, wanting to make it an object of intuition, so that they do not become a whit the wiser.
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Good manners are a kind of self-government which operates continually to keep the body under, and hold the sensualizing tendency of food in check.
Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876
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In the orgies of the sensualists here represented he gives all the grace and beauty of sensuality without its sensualizing effect.
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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They spoil it, however, by presently sensualizing this invisible again; that is to say, wanting to make it an object of intuition, so that they do not become a whit the wiser.
THIRD SECTION 1785
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