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  • n  the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect

  • Here is Winston Churchill in retirement, "a curious mixture of cunning and animality" pathetically exhibiting an old Boer War poster advertising 25 for his capture: "It's more .
  • Rabble is rabble to him; the mob is a beast with many heads that destroys both good and evil, that overwhelms humanity with animality.
  • The cult of pallor extended to men and crossed the ocean so that Poet Sidney Lanier was shocked by Walt Whitman's "healthy animality.

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