worldling

[ wurld-ling ]

noun
  1. a person devoted to the interests and pleasures of this world; a worldly person: Those who sought money and treasures were indiscriminately classed as worldlings and apostates.

Origin of worldling

1
First recorded in 1540–50; world + -ling1

Words Nearby worldling

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How to use worldling in a sentence

  • But I stayed where I was, the earthiest worldling in a dress of unworldliness.

    Patchwork | Anna Balmer Myers
  • Great God, considerAll she has done and suffered, and forbearTo smite her like a worldling!

    The Saint's Tragedy | Charles Kingsley
  • Perhaps; but, bias for bias, I would rather own to that of the romantic schoolboy than to that of the cynical Old-worldling.

  • To a clay compounded chiefly of the worldling and the rhetorician there is added a real spark of Promethean fire.

    George Eliot | Mathilde Blind
  • Almost all the life of a worldling's pleasure is in his hopes.

British Dictionary definitions for worldling

worldling

/ (ˈwɜːldlɪŋ) /


noun
  1. a person who is primarily concerned with worldly matters or material things

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