earthliness
- a word derived from earthly.
Example Sentences
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But, at least in his paintings, Soutine never sought to escape earthliness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
We try to turn away from our earthliness, but our prayers embody our appetites.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2014
Doll of course denies his earthliness, swears it is carnal knowledge of a fiend she has, and convicts herself of her witchcraft.
From Time Magazine Archive
This earthliness and carnality of our hearts makes them like the earth, receive only the light in the upper and outward superfice, and not suffer it to be transmitted into our hearts to change them.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
Their mysticism was noble in its kind, 'and perhaps a necessary reaction against the general earthliness of men's minds.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
