worldling

American  

[wurld-ling] / ˈwɜrld lɪŋ /

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.

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worldling British  

/ ˈwɜːldlɪŋ /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of worldling

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

Example Sentences

I had lived my adulthood as a postmodern man, a worldling of the coasts and cities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2016

A worldling and a wit, Philip Barry is really at home only in a drawing room.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is a troublesome task, for Becket's abrupt shift from worldling to ascetic, from Henry's helpful administrator to his hostile priest, needs probing; indeed, the whole unsimple man who suddenly found God needs probing.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is Andrew Cruickshank's worldling Warwick and, even more, John Buckmaster's weakling Dauphin, that come closest to doing Shaw justice.

From Time Magazine Archive

And sweet as the voice which spoke at that time was now the tenor that softly, softly hushed the restless spirit of the worldling to slumber.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von