worldliness
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The answer, as Stella and the Fitzgeralds discover when they stage a seance, is that they are caught in the spectral cross fire of a pair of feuding nether worldlings.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sea, like the breath of mythical and playful goddesses, goes to the heads of worldlings.
From Time Magazine Archive
For in one respect these men were alike: all four were decided worldlings.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the story James was telling�of worldlings shattering a not very articulate, not very engaging, not very interesting, and yet fully sentient and decent human life�is gradually converted into something more theatrical and less true.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ambitious men caught glimpses of nobler ambitions than their own, and even worldlings confessed that his beliefs were beautiful and true, although ‘they wouldn’t pay’.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Vocabulary lists containing worldliness
Selected Short Stories of H.G. Wells
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"The Fallacy of Success" by G.K. Chesterton
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A Long Way from Chicago
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