this-worldliness
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- this-worldly adjective
Etymology
Origin of this-worldliness
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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He is the poet of this-worldliness; he celebrates love, food, drink, music, friendship, conversation, and the changing, changeless beauties of Nature.
From Time Magazine Archive
His call for social involvement was a capstone to decades of religious this-worldliness.
From Time Magazine Archive
When nuns have relapsed from other-worldliness to this-worldliness how have they been?
From The Darrow Enigma by Severy, Melvin Linwood
Evidently Irving, like Goldsmith and Oliver Wendell Holmes, owed his amazing influence largely to his cheerful and wholesome this-worldliness.
From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott
There is in him this-worldliness, but not other-worldliness, his characters not seeming to the full to have a sense of the invisible world.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)
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