Lexicographical Neighbors of Carnalities
Literary usage of Carnalities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the Rev. John Howe by John Howe, Edmund Calamy (1838)
"... even in the very notion of heresy, and therefore about those matters these
carnalities may have place. For when the several passions here mentioned are ..."
2. The City of God by Augustine, Marcus Dods (1871)
"In fine, if any one heard of what I may call " carnalities," he would not fail
to attribute them to the carnal part of man ; so no one doubts that ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... In all the spirituals of pride, Whose honest consciences ne'er rested, Till,
of carnalities divested, They knew and felt themselves t'inherit A double ..."
4. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1899)
"... amid a thousand carnalities, without help from the Sacraments; his chastity,
not indeed in the midst of delights, but amid a thousand liberties, ..."
5. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Allan Menzies, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"... deducing from thence onward its appetite for carnalities and rejection of
spiritualities. I hold, therefore, that from the very beginning the murderous ..."
6. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"corrupts the nations with its carnalities, and oppresses the few remaining
righteous, as under Paganism it did with its idolatries. ..."
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