this-worldliness
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- this-worldly adjective
Etymology
Origin of this-worldliness
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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His call for social involvement was a capstone to decades of religious this-worldliness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Evidently Irving, like Goldsmith and Oliver Wendell Holmes, owed his amazing influence largely to his cheerful and wholesome this-worldliness.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
Persian poetry, with its love of life and this-worldliness, with its wealth of imagery and its appeal to that which is human in all men, is much more readily comprehended by us than is the poetry of all the rest of the Orient.
From Project Gutenberg
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