Carnal definition

Carnal literally means “of the five senses,” or “sensual.”

Examples of Carnal in a sentence

  • Carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 10 years; carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 10 years and under the age of 12 years; indecent assault upon any female or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under 12 years of age.

  • Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of puberty, according to the laws of the respective countries.

  • Carnal knowledge or any attempt to have unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 16 years, so far as such acts are punishable by the law of the State upon which the demand is made.

  • Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 16 years, so far as such acts are punishable by the law of the State upon which the demand is made.

  • In two key texts, Race and the Education of Desire: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’▇ History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995) and Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002), ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ extends Foucaldian notions of the history of sexuality from Europe to the European colonial enterprise, primarily the Dutch experience in Indonesia.

  • Carnal, knowledge or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under 14 years of age, if the evidence produced justifies committal for those crimes according to the laws of both the Contracting Parties.

  • Carnal habit can, “in a certain sense, become engrafted” onto nature, such that nature continually capitulates to its influence.213 As persons routinely deny their natural propensity for good,214 turning instead to evil, the more difficult it becomes for them to do the good when they might will it.

  • On the politics of sex in the colonies also see ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkley: University of California Press, 2002).

  • Carnal knowledge or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under 16 years of age, if the evidence produced justifies committal for those crimes according to the laws of both the Contracting Parties.