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terrene

[te-reen, tuh-, ter-een] / tɛˈrin, tə-, ˈtɛr in /
ADJECTIVE
earthly
Synonyms
STRONG
tellurian telluric terrestrial
WEAK
alluvial carnal corporeal earthbound earthen earthy geotic global human in all creation material mortal mundane nonspiritual physical profane secular subastral sublunary temporal terraqueous uncelestial under the sun unspiritual worldly

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Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself.

From Time Magazine Archive

For it denies that all human faculties must have been evoked by terrene experience.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Apollion: I have, Lord Belzebub, The low terrene observed with keenest eye.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

Form unknown in things terrene; Even monsters pliocene Were not so ill-shaped, I ween.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 by Various

What should he do, to be more worthy? by what devotion, call down the notice of these eyes to so terrene a being as himself?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Vocabulary lists containing terrene

Elements of the Universe: Terr, Terra ("Earth")

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