unworldlinessn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈwəːldlɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌənˈwərldlinᵻs/ Unworldly character.
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society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > [noun] > detachment from worldly concerns
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1803 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 28 Aug. (1941) I. 286 That visionariness which results from a communion with the unworldliness of nature.
1824 T. Campbell Theodric 217 A wildly sweet unworldliness of thought.
1852 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1857) 3rd Ser. xviii. 266 Unworldliness is this—..to have the world, and not to let the world have us; to be the world's masters, and not the world's slaves.
1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece v. 161 The gentleness and the unworldliness of the man who loved..the world so keenly.
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