"call of nature" meaning in English

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          "word": "answer the call of nature"
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          "ref": "1871 February 1, “The Twombley-Carey Reports”, in New York Times, retrieved 2010-09-03",
          "text": "It appears from the evidence adduced that after the canvass had continued five or six consecutive hours, Mr. FORBES and Mr. DECKER, two inspectors went out (though not in company) as they say in \"obedience to a call of nature,\" and were gone five or ten minutes, leaving the box containing the votes for member of Assembly sealed in the care of one inspector. . . .",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 228",
          "text": "I came here yesternight for a call of nature and to do what none can do for me[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1966 September 3, William F. Buckley Jr., “Violation Of Privacy Abetted by 'Bugging'”, in Beaver County Times, USA, retrieved 2010-09-03",
          "text": ". . . the little tree in the big forest of the huge national park behind which Mrs. Marie Dressor retreated from a roadside picnic with her husband and children, to heed a call of nature.",
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          "ref": "2007 December 9, Simon Wilde, “England thankful for cautious Cook”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 2010-09-03",
          "text": "Cook's concentration may have been broken by a call of nature a few minutes earlier, when he held up play to visit the bathroom.",
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        "The bodily urge to urinate or defecate."
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          "urinate",
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          "defecate",
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        "(euphemistic) The bodily urge to urinate or defecate."
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          "word": "nature calls"
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          "word": "defecation and Thesaurus:urination"
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          "sense": "need to defecate or urinate (euphemistic)",
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          "word": "naturbehov"
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  "word": "call of nature"
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      "word": "nature calls"
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          "ref": "1871 February 1, “The Twombley-Carey Reports”, in New York Times, retrieved 2010-09-03",
          "text": "It appears from the evidence adduced that after the canvass had continued five or six consecutive hours, Mr. FORBES and Mr. DECKER, two inspectors went out (though not in company) as they say in \"obedience to a call of nature,\" and were gone five or ten minutes, leaving the box containing the votes for member of Assembly sealed in the care of one inspector. . . .",
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          "ref": "1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 228",
          "text": "I came here yesternight for a call of nature and to do what none can do for me[.]",
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          "ref": "1966 September 3, William F. Buckley Jr., “Violation Of Privacy Abetted by 'Bugging'”, in Beaver County Times, USA, retrieved 2010-09-03",
          "text": ". . . the little tree in the big forest of the huge national park behind which Mrs. Marie Dressor retreated from a roadside picnic with her husband and children, to heed a call of nature.",
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          "ref": "2007 December 9, Simon Wilde, “England thankful for cautious Cook”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 2010-09-03",
          "text": "Cook's concentration may have been broken by a call of nature a few minutes earlier, when he held up play to visit the bathroom.",
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