Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being earthly; grossness.
- noun Worldliness; strong attachment to earthly things.
- noun Want of durability; perishableness; frailty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
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- noun The quality of being
earthly .
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Examples
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It convicts them of the want of love, gratitude, and all high desires after God: it reveals the stupor and earthliness which is still upon the soul.
Sermons. Volume Third. 1808-1892 1847
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This Advent, our spiritual imagination replaces earthliness with holiness.
Sheldon C. Good: Market's Hand, God's Embrace Sheldon C. Good 2010
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This Advent, our spiritual imagination replaces earthliness with holiness.
Sheldon C. Good: Market's Hand, God's Embrace Sheldon C. Good 2010
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This Advent, our spiritual imagination replaces earthliness with holiness.
Sheldon C. Good: Market's Hand, God's Embrace Sheldon C. Good 2010
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This Advent, our spiritual imagination replaces earthliness with holiness.
Sheldon C. Good: Market's Hand, God's Embrace Sheldon C. Good 2010
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There is a love sublime in its earthliness which leads her to find something like absolution in the very greatness of the surrender and glory in
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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So said the multitude, and so say I, although I scarce can hope it; for who shall dare to think that Heaven will grant its benediction on a compact steeped in earthliness, and formed without one heavenward view!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various
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One of our poets claims that there is something of earthliness in the kisses of all but children: --
The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair
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Her love was veiled, as it were, in a most delicate, most diaphanous mist, which took from it all earthliness, and left it intangible, magical as some gift from fairyland.
The Making of a Soul Kathlyn Rhodes
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A cloud swept up over the gorgeous earthliness of the great Rubens picture, and from out its folds shone sweet and smiling angel faces, looking down upon the scene.
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage
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