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A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers.

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A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers. And worldlings blot the temple's gold. Keble.

Related words: (words related to WORLDLING)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• GAINPAIN
  Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.
• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• GAINSOME
  1. Gainful. 2. Prepossessing; well-favored. Massinger.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  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. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• GAINSAY
  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
• GAINLY
  Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously. Dr. H. More.
• TEMPORAL
  Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals. Lowell.
• WORLD-WIDE
  Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• GAINSAYER
  One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
• TEMPORALTY
  1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• GAINAGE
  The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage. The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself. Bouvier.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
• BARGAINER
  One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.