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this world
a. The present world; the present state or stage of existence, as distinguished from another, esp. a future one. (Cf. other world.)
c950Lindisf. Gosp., Luke xvi. 8 Suno ðisses woruldes [c1000Ags. Gosp. ðisse worulde bearn.] a1175Cott. Hom. 231 He cumð an ende þisser wrld. c1175Lamb. Hom. 7 Þeos world is whilende. 1382Wyclif John xvi. 11 The prince of this world is now demyd. 1470–85Malory Arthur xiii. vii. 621 They alle shalle neuer mete more in thys world. 1583J. Munden in J. B. Wainwright Two Eng. Mart. (C.T.S.) 24 Biddinge you farewell for ever in this worlde. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. III. 332 The perishing possessions of this World. 1883M. E. Braddon Gold. Calf xiv, What higher office can a man hold in this world than to form the minds of the rising generation?
b. attrib. Pertaining to this world; mundane.
1889J. Titsworth in Chicago Advance 7 Feb., [To] appreciate the this-world sphere of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Hence ˌthis-ˈworldian, a man of this world, a wordling; ˈthis-ˌworldism, ˌthis-ˈworldliness, devotion to the things of this world; ˈthis-worldly a., concerned with the things of this world or the present state of existence; ˈthis-worldness = this-worldliness.
1830Coleridge Ch. & St. (1839) 77 Those..that separate the Christian from the this-worldian. 1872Howells Wedd. Journ. (1892) 269 A spiritual-worldiness which was the clarified likeness of this-worldiness. 1883W. M. Adamson in Evang. Union Worthies 319 This-worldism ignored God, if it did not deny His existence. 1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi xlviii. 480 The guests were always this-worldly, and often profane. 1887Pall Mall G. 19 Oct. 2/1 The Need of ‘This-worldliness’... Evangelical Christians have been too often guilty of ‘other-worldliness’. 1928C. H. Dodd Authority of Bible iv. xii. 268 Hard experience revealed the insufficiency of the robust ‘this-worldliness’ of the classical Hebrew religion. 1930G. Greene Two Witnesses 92 His sensitively spiritual soul could make no truce with any thisworldness. 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. xv. 187 The Churches..feel themselves threatened by the rise of an outlook more concerned with social planning for this-worldly improvement than with individual concern for other-worldly salvation. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 776/1 Our civilization acquired its secular, scientific, anti-theological character, its ‘this-worldliness’. 1978J. Skorupski in Hookway & Pettit Action & Interpretation 83 It treats the magical and, by and large, the religious practices as ‘instrumental’: as attempts to control the course of events in such a way as to bring about this-worldly ends which the actors seek. |