Meaning of worldwise | Babel Free

Definitions

Knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced.

Examples

“Those who are highly conceited, illuminated, and world-wise, hate, envy, scandalize, defame and persecute this Mystery to the utmost Rind, or innermost Kernel, which hath its beginning out of the Center […]”

“An older and more world-wise man might have been puzzled by her varying moods, her sudden prejudices, her quick resentment at all constraint and authority.”

“Luttpold Wolkenstein, financier and diplomat on a small, obtrusive, self-important scale, sat in his favoured café in the world-wise Habsburg capital, confronted with the Neue Freie Presse and the cup of cream-topped coffee and attendant glass of water that a sleek-headed piccolo had just brought him.”

“Experience that’s worldwide and worldwise. It’s a difference that’s helped us make friends with a world full of travelers.”

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