rare. [f. CARNAL + -ISM.] The practice of what is carnal; sensualism.
1828. Sydney Monitor, 25 Oct., 1372/2. But with all this religious vanity, there is generally a little bit of carnalism at bottom.
1864. Times, 17 Aug., 6. There is a degree … of carnalism, so to speak, in all this.
1876. C. M. Davies, Unorth. Lond., 119. To avoid the Charybdis of carnalism, there is no need to seek the Scylla of Quietism.
