ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Worldling

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Worldling is a noun meaning A mundane person, preoccupied with worldly affairs rather than spiritual matters.

Meaning

A mundane person, preoccupied with worldly affairs rather than spiritual matters.

Example Sentences

A foutra for the world and worldlings base!
These wicked wares, that worldlings buy and sell, The moth will eat, or else the canker rust: All flesh is grass, and to the grave it must.
[…] if the simple look benevolently on money, how much more do your old worldlings regard it! Their affections rush out to meet and welcome money.
Disgusted with the world and worldlings, I drove down to an estate of my father's, in Suffolk, determined to “misanthropise” and be romantic ; but all my plans were disconcerted by the “Large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands” of Miss Emily Hathenden, whose estate bordered on my own.

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Related dictionary entries include earthling, mundie, mundane, wordmonger, wormling, ordinary.

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