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单词 earthliness
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earthlinessn.

Brit. /ˈəːθlɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈərθlinᵻs/
Forms: 1500s erthlynesse, 1500s–1600s earthlinesse, 1600s earthlyness, 1700s– earthliness.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: earthly adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < earthly adj. + -ness suffix. With sense 2 compare earlier worldliness n. Compare earlier earthiness n.
1. = earthiness n. 1. Obsolete.In quot. 2001 probably a typographical error for earthiness.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > quality
earthinessa1398
earthliness?1533
terrestrity1568
terreity1612
terrenity1649
terreneness1652
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Div The one is pure separate of erthlynesse.
1594 Mirrour Policie (1599) 178 If of an earthly substance wee would make fire, we must first purge and purifie it from the earthlinesse.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. iv. 371 Vulturs are said to smell the earthlinesse of a dying corps.
1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 144 It is..the earthlinesse that is so nauseous.
2001 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 2 Feb. e6 It gives off a floral aroma and a slight earthliness typical of the Cobble Hill terroir.]
2. The quality of belonging to the earth; the properties of material or non-spiritual things; worldliness.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun]
secularity1395
sieclec1400
worldlishipa1425
worldliness?c1430
worldlihoodc1443
mundanity1506
secularness?1529
carnality1548
carnalness1549
earthliness1549
rudiments of the world1557
Sadduceeism1577
Sadducism1581
earthly-mindedness1603
temporalness1611
worldly-mindedness1621
corporality1628
unspiritualness1642
civility1644
corporeity1653
materialism1822
unspirituality1843
secularism1851
terrestrialism1856
temporalism1872
this-worldliness1872
despiritualization1874
this-worldism1883
this-worldness1930
1549 W. Thomas Vanitee of World sig. Av Attendyng onely to the ornament of the earthly part, we do as muche as lieth in vs to transforme that diuinitee that we haue, into earthlinesse.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxcvi. 1215 When we..worship him [sc. God], wee imagine not any earthlinesse in him.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Terresterrité..earthlinesse, worldlinesse.
1665 G. Wither Medit. upon Lords Prayer 107 They in whom the first natural Earthlyness and will, are predominant.
1709 S. Acton Fruit from Canaan 36 That Earthliness, Remissness, Drunkenness and Debauchery, as give just occasion to impartial Persons to suspect their zealous Fits and pious Appearances to be nothing but Arch-Hypocrisy and Dissimulation.
1781 T. Bennet Serm. xv. 359 You will sensibly feel, and often bewail the remaining unbelief, legality, hardness of heart, earthliness..that still hangs about you.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab i. 8 Each stain of earthliness Had passed away.
1851 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales II. xiii. 211 For often there was an earthliness in his conceptions.
1927 Music Supervisors' Jrnl. 13 79/1 The theme is that of lovers, foredoomed by pagan earthliness to exclusion from the salvation that comes to the cooler-blooded upright.
a1963 C. S. Lewis Poems (1964) 100 And all his famed Elysium Worthless, if former joys in all their earthliness Are there repeated, manically, dizzily.
2005 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 16 May 13 The final act, in the garden of a nunnery, is touching, having a mixture of earthliness and ethereality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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