WORLDLY
\wˈɜːldli], \wˈɜːldli], \w_ˈɜː_l_d_l_i]\
Definitions of WORLDLY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"
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characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly goods and advancement"
By Princeton University
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concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"
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characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly goods and advancement"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
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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.
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Lay, as opposed to clerical.
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With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
By Oddity Software
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Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
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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.
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Lay, as opposed to clerical.
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With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
By Noah Webster.
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Pertaining to the world, esp. as distinguished from the world to come: devoted to this life and its enjoyments: bent on gain.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction to the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments to the exclusion of other and higher, specially spiritual, interests.
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With relation to this life.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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