Worldly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WORLDLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
ADVERB:
• in a worldly manner
ADJECTIVE:
• pertaining to the world
• (of a person) experienced and sophisticated
• of or concerned with material values or ordinary life rather than a spiritual existence
• not spiritual
• 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.
• characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
• very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world

Words related to WORLDLY

worldlier13 worldliest14 worldliness15

Words that contain WORLDLY

unworldly16 otherworldly22

How to use WORLDLY in a sentence

• Even the worldly advice of Rogers and Madame de Stael was thrown away, whenever they presumed to counsel him.
• Here was the worldly environment with which Fauchery is so often reproached.
• It is a tradition among us that our convent was originally founded by two poor nuns, whose worldly possessions consisted in a jar of oil and a sack of beans.
• You have not learned the sorrowful lesson, that all worldly occupations and interests are wearing to their close.
• In performing this office he thought it necessary to compose his own text-books, such as would teach the vanity of worldly greatness and the loftiness of virtue.
• Bedient did not seem to hope for great things in a worldly way, while the correspondent was driven daily by ambition and its self-dreams.
• I do most solemnly assure you that no temporal or worldly views induce me to this earnest address.
• He was, however, perfectly happy, so that, considering the ruin of his worldly prospects, it was, perhaps, as well that he had parted, for a time, at least, with his wits.
• The simplest way in which the sorrow of the world works death, is seen in the effect of mere regret for worldly loss.
• I hold that he had no right to sacrifice a great spiritual good of his own to the worldly good of his family, however he made it out.
• He now became the abbot of a monastery, but the monks were so worldly that he had to correct them.
• Through the channels of material sense, of worldly policy, pomp, and pride, cometh no success in Truth.
• All the privations and fatigues of the religious life appeared to me infinitely preferable to worldly pleasures, and I came away from my meditation completely transformed.
• On the other hand was a position to which the official world attached no importance, and which brought with it no worldly advantages whatever.
• It is general to all religions to begin by moral means, and proceed farther by more worldly instruments.
• He urged the pleasures of self-improvement and of duty against indulgences, honours, and worldly advancement.
• Behind him Annie-Many-Ponies walked and led the black horse that bore all her worldly possessions bound to the saddle.
• Then for a little time, perhaps, he is stayed in his wickedness, but before long he returns to his worldly lusts.
• On the contrary, rejoice with me, that all my worldly troubles are so near to their end.
• Many of his former comrades were going to Texas, and, as our worldly possessions were movable, to Texas we started.
• Though kind and gentle he was a strong Calvinist, and by his zeal and energy in preaching such doctrines, injured himself in a worldly point of view.
• I blest God for my poverty, that I had no worldly riches or grandeur to draw my heart from Him.
• Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good.
• Though the profession of a monk excluded worldly advancement, it was held in great esteem and was hence adopted by ambitious and quarrelsome men who had no true vocation.

Similar words containing WORLD without suffix ly

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