worldly

worldly englannista suomeksi

1. kokenut, maailmaa nähnyt

2. mainen, maallinen

1. maallinen, mainen

2. maallinen, sekulaarinen

3. kokenut, maailmanmiesmäinen, varmakäytöksinen

worldly englanniksi

1. Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.

2. 1868, May Alcott|Louisa May Alcott, ''Women/Chapter 24|Little Women'', Part Two, Chapter Twenty-four: Gossip,

These attributes, in spite of poverty and the strict integrity which shut him out from the more worldly successes, attracted to him many admirable persons, as naturally as sweet herbs draw bees, and as naturally he gave them the honey into which fifty years of hard experience had distilled no bitter drop.

3. (circa), Vyasa, Mohan Ganguli|Kisari Mohan Ganguli (translator), ''Mahabharata/Book 1: Adi Parva/Section LXXXV|The Mahabharata'', Book 1: Adi Parva, Section LXXXV,

Thirst of enjoyment, therefore, should be given up. Indeed, true happiness belongeth to them that have cast off their thirst for worldly objects--a thirst which is difficult to be thrown off by the wicked and the sinful, which faileth not with the failing life, and which is truly the fatal disease of man.

4. {{quote-text|en|year=1889|translator=Smith|Huntington Smith|author=Leo Tolstoy|title=Religion/Chapter VIII|My Religion|chapter=VIII

5. {{quote-text|en|year=1910|author=G. K. Chesterton|title=s:What's Wrong with the World/Chapter1.3|What's Wrong with the World|section=Chapter 1, part 3

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6. Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.

7. Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.

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9. In a worldly manner.

10. Of the material world:

11. Made of matter; material, physical.

12. Not eternal; temporal.

13. Subject to death; mortal.

14. Mundane, secular; unrelated to religion:

15. Versed in the ways of the world.

16. Impious, irreverent.

17. In the way of the material world.

18. In a mundane or secular way.