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worldly
English
Etymology
From Middle English worldly, worldlich, from Old English woruldl??, worldl??, weoroldl?? (“worldly; earthly; temporal; mundane; secular”), from Proto-Germanic *weraldil?kaz, equivalent to world +? -ly. Cognate with Dutch wereldlijk (“worldly; secular”), German Low German weltlik (“worldly”), German weltlich (“worldly”), Danish verdslig (“worldly”), Swedish världslig (“worldly”), Icelandic veraldlegur (“worldly; secular”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w??(?)ldli/
Adjective
worldly (comparative worldlier or more worldly, superlative worldliest or most worldly)
- Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part Two, Chapter Twenty-four: Gossip,
- These attributes, in spite of poverty and the strict integrity which shut him out from the more worldly successes, attracted to him many admirable persons, as naturally as sweet herbs draw bees, and as naturally he gave them the honey into which fifty years of hard experience had distilled no bitter drop.
- c. 1883-1896, Vyasa, Kisari Mohan Ganguli (translator), The Mahabharata, Book 1: Adi Parva, Section LXXXV,
- Thirst of enjoyment, therefore, should be given up. Indeed, true happiness belongeth to them that have cast off their thirst for worldly objects--a thirst which is difficult to be thrown off by the wicked and the sinful, which faileth not with the failing life, and which is truly the fatal disease of man.
- 1889, Leo Tolstoy, Huntington Smith (translator), My Religion, Chapter VIII,
- The conviction that my personal, worldly life was something real and good constituted the misunderstanding, the obstacle, that prevented me from comprehending Jesus doctrine.
- 1910, G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, Chapter 1, part 3,
- We have actually contrived to invent a new kind of hypocrite. The old hypocrite, Tartuffe or Pecksniff, was a man whose aims were really worldly and practical, while he pretended that they were religious. The new hypocrite is one whose aims are really religious, while he pretends that they are worldly and practical.
- Synonyms: material, mundane, sublunar
- Antonyms: otherworldly, spiritual
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part Two, Chapter Twenty-four: Gossip,
- Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.
- Synonyms: lay, profane
- Antonyms: clerical, religious, sacred
- Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.
- Synonyms: sophisticated, street-smart
- Antonym: naive
Translations
Adverb
worldly (comparative more worldly, superlative most worldly)
- In a worldly manner.
Derived terms
- worldly-wise
Translations
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worldhood
English
Etymology
From world +? -hood.
Noun
worldhood (plural worldhoods)
- (rare) A worldly possession.
- 1841, Isaac Disraeli, Amenities of literature:
- Follow no more this vein, but content yourselves with what you have already, or else seek honest means whereby to increase your worldhoods.
- 1841, Isaac Disraeli, Amenities of literature:
- The state or condition of the world; worldliness.
- 1992, Robert S. Corrington, Nature and spirit: an essay in ecstatic naturalism:
- It makes sense to speak of numerous horizons of meaning, but not of numerous worldhoods.
- 2005, Stephen Mulhall, Routledge philosophy guidebook to Heidegger and Being and time:
- The worldhood of the world is not comprehensible in the terms developed by speculative reason for the comprehension of present-at-hand objects and their properties.
- 1992, Robert S. Corrington, Nature and spirit: an essay in ecstatic naturalism:
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