adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's worldly possessions literary (= everything they own )
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Over his shoulder hung a bag which contained all his worldly possessions.
sb’s worldly goods (= all the things that someone owns )
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All his worldly goods fit in four packing cases.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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These sceptical, cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities.
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As it usually does to men, war made Stewart much more worldly .
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The more worldly among his guests know that too.
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She was more worldly than we, I thought, and it was true she looked like Kip.
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I suppose I was more worldly .
■ NOUN
goods
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My worldly goods , my total possessions.
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He loses all his worldly goods because a law suit is not decided in his favor.
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But he bought no worldly goods .
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Why, of course you must leave all your worldly goods to him.
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We generally promise each other all our worldly goods .
possession
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They tear our houses down, burn up our worldly possessions , and sometimes even kill us.
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A great number of emigres arrived daily from the mainland, left homeless and often destitute of all worldly possessions .
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Returned that same evening to Brigade Headquarters to collect my rucksack containing all my worldly possessions and, of course, the bagpipes.
success
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There is nothing like worldly success on the part of one academic to make all the others hate him or her.
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But Jacob was promised neither worldly success nor material security, for the ladder was only the part of the dream.
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Our Church often measures things in terms of worldly success , and not in terms of the humility of weakness and failure.
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It is an excellent debut, crisply written and full of dark observations on the fragility of worldly success .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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For a priest he was surprisingly worldly .
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Marilyn is a worldly New Yorker in her 60s.
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Members of the church tried to isolate themselves from worldly influences.
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She was much older and more worldly than I was.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As it usually does to men, war made Stewart much more worldly .
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He learned that there was such a job as trading bonds from his more worldly classmates.
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He wasn't a worldly man in that direction.
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In our headlong pursuit to acquire wealth and worldly pleasures, Christians have become virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world.
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The gospel is not analogous to philosophical wisdom; it is folly to the worldly .
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The trouble is that various worldly pressures will make you more, not less, inclined to play it safe.
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The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord; the married man is anxious about worldly affairs.