Word Meanings - WRONGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of the world." Tennyson.
Related words: (words related to WRONGER)
- 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.