Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being terrene; world-liness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Earthiness; worldliness.
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- noun obsolete
earthiness ;worldliness
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Examples
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Trees creak in sorrow for the engineered wound through their terrain, their terrenity or earth-hood.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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