Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a worldly mind; devoted to temporal pleasures and concerns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by materialism
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Examples
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A worldly-minded, unspiritual church, when she crosses the ocean to give her witness to peoples of other tongues and other cultures, is sure to bring forth on other shores a Christianity much like her own.
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Please God, save us from such worldly-minded pastors!
"I worked under Cardinal Bernardin and he taught me how to collaborate..." 2009
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The worldly-minded, who failed to use their wealth and talents in the service of God,*
For those in purgatory Dymphna 2008
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The worldly-minded, who failed to use their wealth and talents in the service of God,*
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Sir William, still more worldly-minded than he was timid, was reduced to despair by the loss by which he was threatened.
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To these professed atheists, we may well add that impious and carnal crew of worldly-minded men, impenitent sinners, that go to hell in a lethargy, or in a dream; who though they be professed
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It was our poor, sinful, worldly-minded brother here present who was wrestled for.
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Now, my fellow-sinners, to show you the difference betwixt worldly - mindedness and unworldly-mindedness, betwixt kingdoms not of this world and kingdoms OF this world, here was a letter wrote by even our worldly-minded brother unto Brother Hawkyard.
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Now, my fellow-sinners, to show you the difference betwixt worldly - mindedness and unworldly-mindedness, betwixt kingdoms not of this world and kingdoms OF this world, here was a letter wrote by even our worldly-minded brother unto Brother Hawkyard.
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It was our poor, sinful, worldly-minded brother here present who was wrestled for.
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