different between worldling vs worlding
worldling
English
Etymology
From world +? -ling.
Noun
worldling (plural worldlings)
- A mundane person, preoccupied with worldly affairs rather than spiritual matters.
- 1600, Nicholas Breton, “A Solemn Farewell to the World” in Melancholike Humours, in Verses of Diverse Natures:
- These wicked wares, that worldlings buy and sell,
The moth will eat, or else the canker rust:
All flesh is grass, and to the grave it must.
- These wicked wares, that worldlings buy and sell,
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:
- […] if the simple look benevolently on money, how much more do your old worldlings regard it! Their affections rush out to meet and welcome money.
- 1600, Nicholas Breton, “A Solemn Farewell to the World” in Melancholike Humours, in Verses of Diverse Natures:
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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worlding
English
Verb
worlding
- present participle of world
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