worldly Betydning & definition

Eksempler på worldly

• In indigenous thought, full ' this-worldly ' personhood implied bodily capacities, not as an aspect of itself but as the precondition to enter and sustain social relationships.

• No curtains, frills, or decorations, or worldly objects like clothes, jewels, and mirrors, were allowed.

• The absoluteness of this feeling ' represents' an absolute - infinite, non-worldly, absolutely simple and all-powerful - object.

• Moreover, within religious communities, worldly goods were equalized and diminished in order to lessen the distractions of temporal comforts and to deny them.

• Plagued by 'worldly misfortunes',57 the monks are in dire need of financial support.

• He orders her to leave the worldly life so as to rear their unborn child in the seclusion of the mountains.

• The royal marriage also symbolized peace, and the greater triumphs of peace and love over the vicissitudes of lesser, worldly victories.

• In the process they became worldly, and some became wise.