unworldly
adjective
not worldly; not seeking material advantage; spiritually minded.
unworldliness
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a word derived from
unworldly.
Example Sentences
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Obviously, some people must, and yet today a passion for reading seems vaguely quaint, while to be called “bookish” or “learned” verges on an insult, suggesting a slightly ditsy, even elitist unworldliness.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022
A score of repetitive, ethereal unworldliness, it lasted 4 hours and 38 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2015
Geoffrey Streatfeild as Protasov follows a basic rule of acting by playing the character from his own point of view, as a man who believes his visionary experiments justify his unworldliness.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2013
Northanger Abbey centers on Catherine Morland, a good-natured but naïve heroine whose unworldliness leads her to misinterpret much of what she sees.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013
Putta, Bishop of Rochester, 216, 218; at the Hertford Synod, 228; leaves Rochester for Mercia, 242; his unworldliness, 242; teaches Church music, 242; death, 242.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede
