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Word Meanings - WRONGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of the world." Tennyson.

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  • 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
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • 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.
  • WORLD-WIDE
    Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.
  • WORLDLING
    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.
  • WORLDLYWISE; WORLDLY-WISE
    Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan.
  • ANOTHER
    1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
  • WORLDLINESS
    The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
  • TENNYSONIAN
    Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
  • ANOTHER-GAINES
    Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
  • WORLD
    worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. veröld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime, age, ylde men,
  • ANOTHER-GATES
    Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
  • INTERWORLD
    A world between other worlds. Holland.
  • UNDERWORLD
    1. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. That overspreads This underworld. Daniel. 2. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades. 3. The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite
  • UNWORLDLY
    Not worldly; spiritual; holy. Hawthorne. -- Un*world"li*ness, n.
  • FAIR-WORLD
    State of prosperity. They think it was never fair-world with them since. Milton.
  • TITANOTHERIUM
    A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.

 

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