this worldn.
The present world; the present state or stage of existence, as distinguished from another, esp. a future one. (Cf. other world n. and adj.)
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > the present world
this worldc950
Fourth World1931
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xvi. 8 Suno ðisses woruldes [L. filii huius saeculi].
c1000 Ags. Gosp. ðisse worulde bearn.]
a1175 Cott. Hom. 231 He cumð an ende þisser wrld.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 7 Þeos world is whilende.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xvi. 11 The prince of this world [L. princeps mundi huius] is now demyd.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xiii. vii. 621 They alle shalle neuer mete more in thys world.
1583 J. Munden in J. B. Wainwright Two Eng. Mart. (C.T.S.) 24 Biddinge you farewell for ever in this worlde.
1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. III. 332 The perishing possessions of this World.
1883 M. E. Braddon Golden Calf xiv What higher office can a man hold in this world than to form the minds of the rising generation?
Compounds
attributive. Pertaining to this world; mundane.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective]
worldlyOE
dryc1175
fleshlyc1175
of the world?c1225
secularc1290
timely1340
of hencec1384
uttermore1395
worldisha1400
profane1474
humanc1475
mundanec1475
mundial1499
carnal?1510
seculary1520
unghostly1526
worldly-minded1528
sensual1529
earthly-minded1535
civil1536
subcelestial1561
worldly-witted1563
secular-minded1597
ghostlessa1603
lay1609
mundal1614
non-ecclesiastical1630
unspiritual1643
wilderness1651
worldly-handed1657
outward1674
timesome1674
apsychical1678
secularized1683
hylastic1684
choical1708
Sadducee1746
gay1798
unspiritualized1816
secularizing1825
unreligious1832
secularistic1862
apneumatic1864
Sadduceeic1875
this-worldly1883
this world1889
1889 J. Titsworth in Chicago Advance 7 Feb. [To] appreciate the this-world sphere of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Derivatives
ˌthis-ˈworldian n. a man of this world, a wordling.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun] > person
man of the world1535
worldling1549
worlding1567
earthling1600
earthman1748
this-worldian1830
secularist1851
hylicist1880
1830 S. T. Coleridge On Constit. Church & State (1839) 77 Those..that separate the Christian from the this-worldian.
ˈthis-ˌworldism n. = this-worldliness n.
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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
1883 W. M. Adamson in Worthies Evangelical Union 319 This-worldism ignored God, if it did not deny His existence.
ˌthis-ˈworldliness n. devotion to the things of this world.
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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
1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey (1892) 269 A spiritual-worldiness which was the clarified likeness of this-worldiness.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Oct. 2/1 The Need of ‘This-worldliness’... Evangelical Christians have been too often guilty of ‘other-worldliness’.
1928 C. H. Dodd Authority of Bible iv. xii. 268 Hard experience revealed the insufficiency of the robust ‘this-worldliness’ of the classical Hebrew religion.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 776/1 Our civilization acquired its secular, scientific, anti-theological character, its ‘this-worldliness’.
ˈthis-worldly adj. concerned with the things of this world or the present state of existence.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] > concerned with this world
earthbounda1616
this-worldly1883
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective]
worldlyOE
dryc1175
fleshlyc1175
of the world?c1225
secularc1290
timely1340
of hencec1384
uttermore1395
worldisha1400
profane1474
humanc1475
mundanec1475
mundial1499
carnal?1510
seculary1520
unghostly1526
worldly-minded1528
sensual1529
earthly-minded1535
civil1536
subcelestial1561
worldly-witted1563
secular-minded1597
ghostlessa1603
lay1609
mundal1614
non-ecclesiastical1630
unspiritual1643
wilderness1651
worldly-handed1657
outward1674
timesome1674
apsychical1678
secularized1683
hylastic1684
choical1708
Sadducee1746
gay1798
unspiritualized1816
secularizing1825
unreligious1832
secularistic1862
apneumatic1864
Sadduceeic1875
this-worldly1883
this world1889
1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xlviii. 480 The guests were always this-worldly, and often profane.
1913 N. S. Talbot in Foundations 14 Thought of to-day is this-worldly.
1927 W. R. Inge Protestantism 12 A materialistic and wholly this-worldly apocalyptism.
1944 J. 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.
1978 J. 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.
ˈthis-worldness n. = this-worldliness n.
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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
1930 G. Greene Two Witnesses 92 His sensitively spiritual soul could make no truce with any thisworldness.
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