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unˈworldly, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Of a type transcending or exceeding what is usually found or experienced in the world.
1707G. Hickes Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (1711) II. 5 That pre-eminent unworldly Power..which the Spiritual Governours..have over their Spiritual Subjects. 1817Coleridge Lay Serm. 73 The impressive example of their un⁓worldly feelings. 1848Aird Chr. Bride i. xxiv, Sequestered they in love's unworldly dream. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xi. 291 They are in another world, and they revel in unworldly thoughts and unworldly associations.
Comb.1805Wordsw. Prelude iv. 290 A wild, unworldly-minded youth.
b. Of persons: Actuated by other than worldly or sordid motives; spiritually-minded.
1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. III. 180, I know you are guileless, Ma'am, and unworldly. 1844Kinglake Eothen xx, This unworldly Sphynx has watched and watched like a Providence. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. vii. vi. III. 225 The pious but not unworldly merchants of Venice.
2. Not belonging to this world; celestial.
1765Sterne Tr. Shandy vii. vi, That all powerful fire which..lights the spirits through unworldly tracts! |