adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
knowledge
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But carnal knowledge sours his relationship with his clients, and paradise is lost.
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It is the threesome of snake, Eve, and Adam which, according to the Bible, makes for carnal knowledge .
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The fruit was carnal knowledge , and everybody from Thomas Aquinas to Milton knew it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But not, he swears, in a carnal sense.
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He had had to confess his carnal thoughts to Father Devlin and had been severely censured.
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I thought about carnal pleasure, and looked around and felt certain that something cataclysmic was well on its way.
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In the end she opts for the serious, renounces carnal love, and decides to become a Catholic.
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It is notable primarily for its lack of carnal interest.
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She knew what loving meant perhaps, but little of violence and carnal needs.
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The fruit was carnal knowledge, and everybody from Thomas Aquinas to Milton knew it.