Meaning of Worldling | Babel Free

Definitions

A mundane person, preoccupied with worldly affairs rather than spiritual matters.

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Examples

“A foutra for the world and worldlings base⟳!”

“These wicked wares, that worldlings buy⟳ and sell⟳, The moth will eat⟳, or else the canker rust: All flesh is grass, and to the grave it must.”

“[…] if the simple look⟳ benevolently on money, how much more do your old worldlings regard it! Their affections rush⟳ out to meet⟳ and welcome⟳ money.”

“Disgusted with the world and worldlings, I drove down to an estate of my father's, in Suffolk, determined to “misanthropise” and be romantic ; but all my plans were disconcerted by the “Large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands” of Miss⟳ Emily Hathenden, whose estate bordered on my own⟳.”

“His seeming rescue⟳ by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony—the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own⟳, and the priestess had come⟳ from the inner temple to save⟳ him from the polluting hands of worldlings—to save⟳ him as a human offering to their flaming deity.”

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