| 单词 | earthly-mindedness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearthly-ˈmindedness earthly-ˈmindedness n. the quality or condition of being earthly-minded.The possible instance in quot. 1587 is based on editorial reconstruction. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun] secularity1395 sieclec1400 worldlishipa1425 worldliness?c1430 worldlihoodc1443 mundanity1506 secularness?1529 carnality1548 carnalness1549 earthliness1549 rudiments of the world1557 Sadduceeism1577 Sadducism1581 earthly-mindedness1603 temporalness1611 worldly-mindedness1621 corporality1628 unspiritualness1642 civility1644 corporeity1653 materialism1822 unspirituality1843 secularism1851 terrestrialism1856 temporalism1872 this-worldliness1872 despiritualization1874 this-worldism1883 this-worldness1930 1587 R. Rogers Diary 22 Dec. in Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries (1933) 72 Much more dullnes, unprofit[ableness], earthlymind[edness], wandr[ing] after foly, unaptnes to study, feare of breaking of my course.] 1603 R. Rogers Seuen Treat. v. xiii. f. 485 Earthly-mindednesse is another streame running from this fountaine, when we are drawne to the loue of the commodities of this world, and are led with a desire of growing rich. 1781 T. Bennet Serm. xii. 290 The soul espoused to Christ, is at war with itself, with the remaining legality, carnality and earthly mindedness of the heart. 1880 Musical Times & Singing Class Circular 21 113/1 It would be..easy..for the serious musician to..moralise on the earthly-mindedness of particular audiences in New York and in London. 1991 P. Heinegg tr. W. Jens & H. Küng Lit. & Relig. 157 Self-interest, greed, the laziness of the clergy, covetousness, and the earthlymindedness of people in general prepared the end for the ‘first love’ of the High Middle Ages. < as lemmas |
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