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worldly |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Worldly \World"ly\, adv With relation to this life; in a worldly manner. Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek. --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Worldly \World"ly\, a. [AS. woroldlic.] 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. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: worldly adj 1: characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly goods and advancement" [ant: {unworldly}] 2: very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom" [syn: {blase}] 3: concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual" [syn: {temporal}]
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