WORLDLY


Meaning of WORLDLY in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

sb's worldly possessions literary (= everything they own )

Over his shoulder hung a bag which contained all his worldly possessions.

sb’s worldly goods (= all the things that someone owns )

All his worldly goods fit in four packing cases.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

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These sceptical, cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities.

As it usually does to men, war made Stewart much more worldly .

The more worldly among his guests know that too.

She was more worldly than we, I thought, and it was true she looked like Kip.

I suppose I was more worldly .

■ NOUN

goods

My worldly goods , my total possessions.

He loses all his worldly goods because a law suit is not decided in his favor.

But he bought no worldly goods .

Why, of course you must leave all your worldly goods to him.

We generally promise each other all our worldly goods .

possession

They tear our houses down, burn up our worldly possessions , and sometimes even kill us.

A great number of emigres arrived daily from the mainland, left homeless and often destitute of all worldly possessions .

Returned that same evening to Brigade Headquarters to collect my rucksack containing all my worldly possessions and, of course, the bagpipes.

success

There is nothing like worldly success on the part of one academic to make all the others hate him or her.

But Jacob was promised neither worldly success nor material security, for the ladder was only the part of the dream.

Our Church often measures things in terms of worldly success , and not in terms of the humility of weakness and failure.

It is an excellent debut, crisply written and full of dark observations on the fragility of worldly success .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

For a priest he was surprisingly worldly .

Marilyn is a worldly New Yorker in her 60s.

Members of the church tried to isolate themselves from worldly influences.

She was much older and more worldly than I was.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As it usually does to men, war made Stewart much more worldly .

He learned that there was such a job as trading bonds from his more worldly classmates.

He wasn't a worldly man in that direction.

In our headlong pursuit to acquire wealth and worldly pleasures, Christians have become virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world.

The gospel is not analogous to philosophical wisdom; it is folly to the worldly .

The trouble is that various worldly pressures will make you more, not less, inclined to play it safe.

The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord; the married man is anxious about worldly affairs.

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