单词 | earthliness |
释义 | earthlinessn.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.?1533 |
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