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worldling|ˈwɜːldlɪŋ|
[f. world n. + -ling. Cf. G. weltling.]
1. One who is devoted to the interests and pleasures of the world; a worldly or worldly-minded person.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Jude 23 b, They bee worldelinges, and geuyng them selues in to the seruice of worldly affectes. 1553Saunders in Coverdale Lett. Martyrs (1564) 214 You haue dronke of the holy spirite with other, vnto whom the knowledge hereof semeth not folyshnes (as it doth vnto worlynges). a1614J. Melvill Autob. & Diary (Wodrow Soc.) 271 The godlie, for his..doctrine, lovit him; the warldlings, for his parentage and place, reverenced him. a1659Bp. Brownrig Serm. (1674) I. xxvii. 350 A Worldlings thoughts, like a Fools, are all for the present. 1700Dryden Ceyx & Alcyone 186 The covetous Worldling in his anxious Mind Thinks only on the Wealth he left behind. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 19 Trifles, with which those Worldlings are taken up. 1821Byron Mar. Fal. ii. i, The world will think with worldlings; but my heart Has still been in my duties. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. App. H. 369 The various pretexts under which Worldlings delude themselves and neglect the welfare of their Souls. 1912Lady Burghclere Life James, 1st Dk. Ormonde I. xv. 474 A gay worldling of no known occupation.
†2.
a. A ‘citizen of the world’, cosmopolite.
b. An inhabitant of the world. Obs.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1589) 329 Socrates said, that he tooke not himselfe to be either an Athenian or a Grecian, but a worldling. c1600Timon i. iv. (Shaks. Soc. 1842) 13 Gelas. What cuntreyman, I pray you, sir? Pseud. A Wordling. 1625N. Carpenter Geogr. Del. ii. viii. 133 God revealed not this art [of navigation] to the old worldlings. 1687A. Lovell tr. Bergerac's Com. Hist. 26 Which our Worldlings call a Moon also. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. liii, The heart must Leap kindly back to kindness, though disgust Hath wean'd it from all worldlings.
3. a. Comb., as worldling-like adv.
a1639Wotton Poems, Descr. Countrey's Recreat. v, The fond Credulity Of silly Fish, which worldling-like, still look Upon the bait, but never on the hook.
b. attrib. or adj. Worldly.
1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xiv. 377 Those..conceal a Wicked and Worldling-heart, under the Garb..of Religion. 1845J. C. Mangan German Anthol. I. 74 That to which worldling natures are blind. |