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earthliness|ˈɜːθlɪnɪs|
[f. earthly a. + -ness.]
1. The quality of being earthly; the distinctive properties of terrestrial things; worldliness as opposed to heavenliness.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. cxcvi. 1215 When we ..worship him [God], wee imagine not any earthlinesse in him. 1611Cotgr., Terresterrité..earthlinesse, worldlinesse. 1665Wither Lord's Prayer 107 They in whom the first natural Earthlyness and will, are predominant. 1813Shelley Q. Mab i. (1853) 4 Each stain of earthliness Had passed away. 1851Hawthorne Twice-told T. II. xiii. 211 For often there was an earthliness in his conceptions.
†2. = earthiness 1. Obs.
c1535G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 920 The one is pure, separate of erthlynesse. 1594Mirr. Pol. (1599) 178 If of an earthly substance wee would make fire, we must first purge and purifie it from the earthlinesse. 1641French Distill. v. (1651) 144 It is..the earthlinesse that is so nauseous. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. iv. 371 Vulturs are said to smell the earthlinesse of a dying corps. |