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the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
they consider the church to be independent of the world
How To Use worldly concern In A Sentence
- Nor is the issue really one of religion versus science or this-worldly concerns. The Times Literary Supplement
- This sort of serendipity goes way back, of course — think of Clément Janequin's "Les cris de Paris," a quodlibet of 16th-century vendors 'cries; In the 19th century, there was a bit of a vogue for the combination of worldly concerns and overheard church music, Schumann's song "Sonntags am Rhine" being a gorgeous example. The band in Heaven, they play my favorite song
- Love, Women, and War" Redbeard opines that women "are incapable of self-mastership ... mere babies in worldly concerns. Essays
- During the walk in the dark you are meant to let go of worldly concerns.
