worldling

[ wurld-ling ]

noun

1. a person devoted to the interests and pleasures of this world; a worldly person:

   Those who sought money and treasures were indiscriminately classed as worldlings and apostates.

worldling

/ ˈwɜːldlɪŋ /

noun

1. a person who is primarily concerned with worldly matters or material things

Word History and Origins

Origin of worldling¹

First recorded in 1540–50; world + -ling ¹

Example Sentences

But I stayed where I was, the earthiest worldling in a dress of unworldliness.

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Great God, considerAll she has done and suffered, and forbearTo smite her like a worldling!

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Perhaps; but, bias for bias, I would rather own to that of the romantic schoolboy than to that of the cynical Old-Worldling.

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To a clay compounded chiefly of the worldling and the rhetorician there is added a real spark of Promethean fire.

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Almost all the life of a worldling's pleasure is in his hopes.

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