worldy
adjEtymology From Middle English worldy, worldi. By surface analysis, world + -y.
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Rare Synonym of worldly.
- For these worldy advantages you offer, I will sell you my body and my soul.1919, Marguerite Stockman Dickson, Vocational Guidance for Girls:
- Listen to him play a Bach cello suite and you'll grasp its proportionate beauty and the conviction that music transcends all worldy concerns.1992 November 27, Ted Shen, “Yo-Yo Ma”, in Chicago Reader:
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- Already on her second marriage when she met Chandler, she was worldy, sexually wise and 18 years his senior, a fact he apparently didn’t know until after they were married.2007 December 30, Tom Shone, “The Big Sleepover”, in New York Times: