The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment.
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Examples for "worldliness"
Examples for "worldliness"
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The warning is needed to-day; for worldliness is rampant in the Church.
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Photograph: Getty Images Bute has a rare blend of worldliness and wilderness.
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In their place she found only exceeding worldliness, or the flippant commonplace.
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The prayers of souls given up to worldliness and ambition effect little.
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That is madness, but it is also other-worldliness and the highest wisdom.
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A windowless, featureless spike, its façade was the very essence of mundanity.
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I cannot wait for this to achieve escape velocity from the mundanity well.
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He needed to feel the solidity of the wood, its mundanity.
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Well, Saints Row IV seems to have decided to make mundanity its enemy.
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The bureaucratic mundanity amplified to maddening levels by a lacklustre workforce.
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Barry is anything but shy in presenting Beethoven's mundaneness.
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It was her particular Whiteness, not her mundaneness.
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One must admit to the... mundaneness of it.'
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She hitched the camera strap higher on her shoulder, taking comfort from the mundaneness of the act.
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Everton's goals all came in the space of 10 second-half minutes and caught everyone by surprise because of the mundaneness of the first half.
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But it didn't need excessive sophistication to work, just a secure mounting.
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The attacks, they say, have been increasing in both sophistication and intensity.
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This was a natural consequence of the long sophistication of my feelings.
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These types of devices kept shrinking in size and increasing in sophistication.
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Being able to access BBC and ITV signalled the apex of sophistication.
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Amid the increasing sophistication, one investigational treatment stands out for its simplicity.
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My new shoes look authentic, but they're a scam of ominous sophistication.
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And the bar of sophistication in this industry has to go up.
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We have a lot of political clout and sophistication for the battle.
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Everything about it captures the glamour and sophistication of early commercial flight.
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Elise Gavard, is the very sophistication of the art of musical ornamentation.
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The Youth looked at me as though proud of his superior sophistication.
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The real theme of this book, though, is the search for sophistication.
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She chattered with the childish artlessness that at times veiled her sophistication.
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And with that would come sophistication and taste and possibly even spirituality.
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Marble floor tiles can add texture while introducing a touch of sophistication.
