this-worldliness
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of this-worldliness
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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He is the poet of this-worldliness; he celebrates love, food, drink, music, friendship, conversation, and the changing, changeless beauties of Nature.
From Time Magazine Archive
His call for social involvement was a capstone to decades of religious this-worldliness.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is in him this-worldliness, but not other-worldliness, his characters not seeming to the full to have a sense of the invisible world.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
Evidently Irving, like Goldsmith and Oliver Wendell Holmes, owed his amazing influence largely to his cheerful and wholesome this-worldliness.
From Washington Irving by Henry Walcott Boynton
When nuns have relapsed from other-worldliness to this-worldliness how have they been?
From The Darrow Enigma by Melvin Linwood Severy
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