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Definition of Animalities
1. animality [n] - See also: animality
Lexicographical Neighbors of Animalities
Literary usage of Animalities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scenes in the Spirit World, Or, Life in the Spheres by Hudson Tuttle (1855)
"Revenge is the basest of the animalities. Charity has a lesson here to learn.
In the undeveloped state of things now existing, the majority are born with ..."
2. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"They have greatly helped to subdue the grosser animalities, they have made life
orderly, moral, serious. But when we go beyond this, and look at the ..."
3. A Study of Greatness in Men by Josephus Nelson Larned (1911)
"... and it is the sin of Carlyle that he has stimulated its preference for the
rude animalities of force and weight in character, over the finer energies ..."
4. Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807 by Anna Seward, Archibald Constable (1811)
"... Not daring to trust my animalities with the intense heats of the theatre, I
went instantly to my excellent friend Lady ..."
5. Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations by John Campbell Shairp (1871)
"He grants that the church organizations have done much. They have greatly helped
to subdue the grosser animalities, — they have ..."
6. Science, Philosophy and Religion: Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell by John Bascom (1871)
"... has never hidden himself so close in animalities but that some pinching
witchcraft, some biting superstition, some stinging fear has found him out, ..."
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