单词 | worldhood |
释义 | worldhoodn.ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > [noun] > member of worldhoodeOE man of the worlda1225 secularc1425 idiot?c1430 layman?a1475 lay?1533 beardling1568 laic1596 terrestrial1602 layperson1972 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun] > world characterized by worldhoodeOE spiritus mundi1647 world-spirit1654 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxiv. 332 Þa heo þa Hild woruldhad forlet [L. relicto habitu saeculari] & Gode anum geteode þeowigan, þa gewat heo in Eastengla mægðe. eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxv. 342 Wæs he [sc. Cædmon] se mon in weoruldhade [L. in habitu saeculari] geseted oð þa tide þe he wæs gelyfdre ylde, & næfre nænig leoð geleornade. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xv. 209 Þeah þe heo si us unwyrðelice & unrihtlic to sprecane, & eac, þeah þe us na ne lyste to þære [spræce] gecyrran, we becumað to ðære for gewille þara woruldhada. 2. The state or condition of being a world; worldly character. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > [noun] > part of > state or condition of worldhood1674 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 183 Not in the world as now 'tis, but chang'd in its kind of worldhood. 1893 J. C. Ridpath Great Races Mankind I. i. i. 43/1 It is doubtless true that every planet passes through a series of primary evolutions, tending ever to worldhood proper, before any forms of life can exist therein. 1942 Music Educators Jrnl. 29 64/2 With the aim of extending friendly neighborhood traits to the dimension of world-hood, I respectfully suggest the high schools establish courses in human relations. 1966 J. Macquarrie Princ. Christian Theol. (ed. 2) 479 A thing is what it is in virtue of its place in an intelligible world. This..is not a subjective understanding of worldhood. 2002 Clio (Nexis) 1 Jan. 115 ‘Communities of conversation’ are inevitably arenas of conflict precisely because their members are not bound by the common sense of worldhood carried within any single conceptual scheme. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > worldly or secular property temporalty1377 temporalitiesc1475 world's wrack?a1513 temporala1525 wreck1562 temporaries1596 worldhood1841 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 136 Content yourselves with what you have already, or else seek honest means whereby to increase your worldhoods. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.eOE |
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