(n) concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs, Ant.otherworldliness, Example: he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him
(adj) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world, Syn.temporal, secular, Ant.unworldly, Example: worldly goods and advancement; temporal possessions of the church
(n) the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife, Syn.earth, earthly concern, world, Example: they consider the church to be independent of the world
n. The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness. [ 1913 Webster ]
Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
With his soul fled all my worldly solace. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Lay, as opposed to clerical. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. 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. [1913 Webster]
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