Wordly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Wordly is an adjective meaning (rare) Of, relating to, or resembling a word; verbal.
Meaning
(rare) Of, relating to, or resembling a word; verbal.
Example Sentences
But I feel an impulse to scribble wordly words, to stand in a silk hat beside the statue of Liberty and gaze out upon the Atlantic with a Carlylian pensiveness.
For in speaking of "syntax," I have employed a concept that is used about the use of words. I have, in other words, "talked" about the nonverbal in a "wordly" way.
We notice here a shift from 'literal' in a wordly sense (cf. the German wörtlich), pertaining to written words as such, to a descriptive sense, pertaining to how a text (or the world) is understood.
"The reality of the wordly words as the word of God is not pneumatologically grounded by Calvin — neither is the church proclaimed word in virtue of its power of divine ordinance a word of God's Spirit imparted for all times, nor is it made more and more God's word through the Holy Spirit—[...]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wordish, wordwise, verbal, verbarian, verbile, worldy.
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