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Definition of Worldly
Worldly
Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.

Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.

Lay, as opposed to clerical.

With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.

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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
George Eliot

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante Alighieri

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
Francis Quarles

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.
Emanuel Swedenborg

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
William Law

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
William Law

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel Butler

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.
Stephen Baldwin



Worldly Translations
worldly in German is weltlich, weltliche
worldly in Italian is laico
worldly in Spanish is mundano


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