worldling
IPA: wˈɝɫdɫɪŋ
noun
- A mundane person, preoccupied with worldly affairs rather than spiritual matters.
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Examples of "worldling" in Sentences
- The harvest which the worldling is proud of the hungry eat up
- Wealth to a worldling is like drink to one in a dropsy, which does but increase the thirst.
- "worldling" at her feet; but he remained silent, still looking upward at the clear, deep blue.
- You are a philosopher, and do not value the opinion of the public — a poor worldling like me is desirous to stand fair with it. —
- They're dead but hey, dangerous guys are pretty dead to the world too, being rebels and above the rules of the typical worldling.
- She stopped with an idle laugh, waiting for an ironical reply from the "worldling" at her feet; but he remained silent, still looking upward at the clear deep blue.
- What should she do with these that are the adornments of the world and the ornament of the worldling, seeing that one garment of cotton would suffice for her covering?
- But they should understand their relation to the impenitent worldling, which is precisely that of a physician without a mandate from the patient, who may not be convinced that there is very much the matter with him.
- He had that saving wisdom of the worldling, which is too often estimated beyond its worth, called cunning; and the frequent successes of which produces that worst of all the diseases that ever impaired the value of true greatness -- conceit.
- This covetous worldling, that is so bent upon raising an estate, all his days eats in darkness and much sorrow, and it is his sickness and wrath; he has not only no pleasure of his estate, nor any enjoyment of it himself, for he eats the bread of sorrow (Ps.cxxvii. 2), but a great deal of vexation to see others eat of it.
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