Get Free Checker

worldling

NOUN
  1. an inhabitant of the earth
  2. a person absorbed by the concerns and interests and pleasures of the present world

How To Use worldling In A Sentence

  • Another worldling says: ‘That one should push through the crowd in order to get to the spot where money is dealt out, and honor, and glory - that one can understand.’
  • ... produces infinite [or 'infantine'] Joy — while the overbusy worldlings are buzzed round by night-flies in Notes on 'Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music'
  • When the mirth of carnal worldlings ceases the joy of the saints is as lively as ever; when the merry-hearted do sigh because the vine languishes the upright-hearted do sing because the covenant of grace, the fountain of their comforts and the foundation of their hopes, never fails. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • (_In the margin_,) Note the hypocrisie of worldlings. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
  • Such discourse sanctions heresy and licentiousness; worldlings and the indevout applaud it, the tepid seem to consent to it, and the falsely devout approve it; it is a scandal to the weak, and a dishonor to religion. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
  • His very body had waxed old in lowly service of the Lord — in tending the fire upon the altar, in bearing tidings secretly, in waiting upon worldlings, in striking swiftly when bidden — and yet had remained ungraced by aught of saintly or of prelatic beauty. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
View all