worldliness
- a word derived from worldly.
Example Sentences
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Worldliness can sometimes come instinctively to child actors, but Moretz also has self-awareness beyond her years, as well as the savvy to know what to do with it.
From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2019
Worldliness wasn’t what you bought and how often you partied.
From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2015
Worldliness, on the other hand, when at the height of its passion against religion, seeks to destroy all the creations of art and genius.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell
Worldliness, heartlessness, eager scheming, cold flirtations, marquis-hunting and the like, disappeared for a while—and were not, as she sate at that honest man's side.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Its Worldliness But what weakened the clergy most was their severance from the general sympathies of the nation, their selfishness, and the worldliness of their temper.
From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by Green, John Richard
