worldling
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.
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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 MyersGreat God, considerAll she has done and suffered, and forbearTo smite her like a worldling!
The Saint's Tragedy | Charles KingsleyPerhaps; but, bias for bias, I would rather own to that of the romantic schoolboy than to that of the cynical Old-worldling.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections | William ArcherTo a clay compounded chiefly of the worldling and the rhetorician there is added a real spark of Promethean fire.
George Eliot | Mathilde BlindAlmost all the life of a worldling's pleasure is in his hopes.
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) | Richard Baxter
British Dictionary definitions for worldling
/ (ˈwɜːldlɪŋ) /
a person who is primarily concerned with worldly matters or material things
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