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otherworldly, a.|ˈʌðəˌwɜːldlɪ|
[f. as prec., after worldly.]
1. Of or pertaining to a world other than that in which we actually live.
1879F. J. Furnivall R. Brunne's Chron. Wace 784/2 Divining, knowledge of other-worldly matters. 1955A. Huxley Let. 10 Jan. (1969) 720, I took mescalin yesterday, for the second time... The experience had a human content, which the earlier, solitary experience, with its Other Worldly quality..did not possess. 1957G. Ashe King Arthur's Avalon iii. 107 The poem entangles Arthur in a network of other-worldly themes, a network which takes in Glastonbury and the quest for a miraculous vessel. 1972Where Oct. 275/3 Other..readers..may find the results almost as other⁓worldly as might a non-literate home in the East End.
2. Of, pertaining to, or devoted to the world of mind or imagination.
1873Pater Renaissance viii. 204 It is easy with the other⁓worldly gifts to be a schöne Seele. 1890Cincinnati Chr. Advocate 5 Feb. 10/3 No one who has ever raised his eyes from his present narrow horizon..will ever sneer at a philosopher as ‘otherworldly’.
3. Of or pertaining to the world to come; devoted to the concerns of the world to come; disposed to consider the affairs or interests of a future life to the neglect of those of the present. Also absol. as n.
1880Sat. Rev. 6 Nov. 585/1 The series is..a sort of other⁓worldly imitation of the series of worldly biographies and criticisms edited by Mr. John Morley. 1886Athenæum 9 Oct. 463/2 Among worldly and other-worldly matrons, maids, and men. 1890Chicago Advance 27 Mar., The early Church had to prove that its concerns were not altogether other-worldly. 1920E. I. Watkin in C. Hess God & Supernatural 141 Nor have these souls merely desired sufferings as the unavoidable price of an other-worldly reward. 1932C. P. Curran in F. J. Sheed Irish Way 134 The other-worldly man must put on the man of affairs, the monk-bishop become a politician. 1950‘G. Orwell’ Shooting Elephant 106 The other-worldly, anti-humanist tendency of his [sc. Gandhi's] doctrines. 1961New Eng. Bible Luke xvi. 8 For the worldly are more astute than the other-worldly in dealing with their own kind. |