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worldly
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Worldly \World"ly\, adv.
With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
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Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise
By simply meek. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Worldly \World"ly\, a. [AS. woroldlic.]
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1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims;
worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." --Shak.
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Many years it hath continued, standing by no other
worldly mean but that one only hand which erected
it. --Hooker.
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2. Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction
from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this
life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly
pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.
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With his soul fled all my worldly solace. --Shak.
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3. Lay, as opposed to clerical. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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