单词 | worldless |
释义 | worldlessadj.n. 1. Free from or detached from the world; unworldly, otherworldly. Also with the as n. ΘΠ society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > [adjective] > detached from worldly concerns worldless1662 unworldly1825 out-of-the-worldly1895 1662 S. Clarke Coll. Lives Ten Eminent Divines i. 155 His Daughter he admonished, to minde the worldless, and God more, for that all things without Piety, and the true fear of God are nothing worth. 1810 J. Porter Sc. Chiefs IV. viii. 244 After some time of worldless stillness,..Bruce..looked towards the abdicated monarch's couch. 1854 R. Montgomery Poet. Wks. (rev. ed.) 19 The fond mother, lapp'd in worldless joy, Fondles with frequent kiss her infant boy. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 75 He pluck'd her dagger forth From where his worldless heart had kept it warm. 1951 R. Manheim tr. K. Jaspers Way to Wisdom vii. 80 Indian ascetics, certain monks in China and the West, left the world in order to partake of the absolute in worldless meditation. 2004 Mojo June 106/1 Connor's weightless notes hover in the air, barely moving yet imbued here with a heart-pausing, captivating sadness and worldless beauty. 2. Not containing a world or worlds; devoid of worlds. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > [adjective] > containing worlds > not worldless1667 1667 J. Raymond Folly in Print 27 Poor worldless-world, thy longest joyes afford As short a span of pleasure, as the gourd Which Jonas had. 1830 R. Montgomery Satan ii. 182 When space was worldless, luminously fill'd With emanations of vast Deity. 1905 A. C. Swinburne Poems II. 236 Let man's world die like worlds of old, And here in heaven's sight only be The sole sun on the worldless sea. 1976 Sang-Ki Kim Probl. Contingency World in Husserl's Philos. i. 38 Time as a worldless dimension of horizontality of the subjectified world makes it impossible to establish any objectified Being. 1995 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 13 Sept. 9 I was back in a worldless chaos where light, still robbed of victory, glinted across a broken universe. 3. Of a person: not having a world in which to live; not attached to any world. ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > exile > [adjective] > refugee or stateless refugee1695 countryless1805 nationless1820 worldless1826 stateless1890 1826 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 528 Can the houseless have a claim above the worldless? 1857 F. W. Faber Poems (ed. 3) cxli. 369 I was a worldless man, a thing detached, A wandering cloud, a being all unmatched With outward destiny. 1913 G. C. Hazelton & J. H. Benrimo Yellow Jacket ii. 128 I am a worldless man... I have no shadows, no ancestors to bring a blessing to my love. 1961 V. Vycinas Earth & Gods viii. 269 Modern man, since he is essentially homeless, is also a worldless man. 2002 Social Res. (Nexis) 69 621 ‘Totalitarianism became this century's curse only because it so terrifyingly took care of its problems,’ problems raised in one way or another by the existence of superfluous or worldless people. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1662 |
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