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worldliness

English

Etymology

From Middle English worldlynesse, equivalent to worldly +? -ness. Compare West Frisian wrâldlikens (“worldliness”), German Weltlichkeit (“worldliness”), Swedish världslighet (“worldliness”).

Noun

worldliness (countable and uncountable, plural worldlinesses)

  1. The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world.

Translations

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cloistered

English

Adjective

cloistered (comparative more cloistered, superlative most cloistered)

  1. Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.
    • Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.
    • 1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules
      In cloister'd state let selfish sages dwell, / Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.
  2. isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence
  3. naive, lacking in worldliness
  4. Furnished with cloisters.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)

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Verb

cloistered

  1. simple past tense and past participle of cloister

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