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/ˈɜːθlɪŋ/ · noun
(obsolete except historical) One who tills the earth; a farmer, a husbandman, a ploughman..
Eoꞃðlinᵹ [Eorthling], is a Husbandman, or Earthling.
And we have not imagination enough to believe, that either the Danish boors, who were earthlings (yrthlingas) in the country, or the Danish soldiers, who, as history tells us, were dandies at the court of King Canute, could, in the brief space of twenty years, have so overlaid or interlarded the pure Anglo-Saxon with their provincialisms, as to give it a new character, and thus form a new period in its history, as was afterwards done by the Normans.
VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs?
Use earthling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Earthling means (obsolete except historical) One who tills the earth; a farmer, a husbandman, a ploughman..
Common synonyms include earthman, tellurian.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Eoꞃðlinᵹ [Eorthling], is a Husbandman, or Earthling.
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