lower world
Classical Mythology. the regions of the dead, conceived of as lying beneath the surface of the earth; Hades; the underworld.
the earth, as distinguished from the heavenly bodies or from heaven.
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How to use lower world in a sentence
This outlook into the supreme domain of nature lifts us, for the first time in our work, definitely above the lower world of life.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisHis image is found standing on the oldest monument, a form of Ra, the light of the lower world, and king and judge of Hades.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordFar away from the earth, you shall look down upon this lower world, you shall contemplate the great universe in its grandeur.
Urania | Camille FlammarionAcheron, at first the name of a river of the lower world, came to be used as a name for the whole of the lower world generally.
Milton's Comus | John MiltonThe grief of Venus was so great that the gods of the lower world allowed him to spend six months of every year on earth.
Milton's Comus | John Milton
British Dictionary definitions for lower world
the earth as opposed to heaven or the spiritual world
another name for hell
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