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Word Meanings - WORLDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining

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1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men. With his soul fled all my worldly solace. Shak. 3. Lay, as opposed to clerical. Chaucer.

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  • CARNALIST
    A sensualist. Burton.
  • TEMPORALNESS
    Worldliness. Cotgrave.
  • EARTHLY-MINDED
    Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • WORLDLY
    1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
  • ANIMALIZATION
    1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
  • CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
    Grossness of mind.
  • ANIMALCULISM
    The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
  • ILLIBERALISM
    Illiberality.
  • ANIMALITY
    Animal existence or nature. Locke.
  • SELFISHLY
    In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
  • COARSE
    was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
  • MUNDANE
    Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere. -- Mun"dane*ly, adv. The defilement of mundane passions. I. Taylor. (more info) toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a., clean, neat, Skr. mansds
  • LAICALITY
    The state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman.
  • ANIMALLY
    Physically. G. Eliot.
  • ANIMALNESS
    Animality.
  • WORLDLY-MINDED
    Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
  • SELFISHNESS
    The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without
  • SENSUALISTIC
    1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
  • ILLIBERALNESS
    The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
  • UNGENEROUSLY
    In an ungenerous manner.
  • SUBLUNAR; SUBLUNARY
    Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly. All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are
  • OVERGREEDY
    Excessively greedy.
  • UNEARTHLY
    Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
  • INCIVIL
    Uncivil; rude. Shak.
  • METROPOLITICAL
    Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.

 

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