The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment.
Concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs.
1 The warning is needed to-day; for worldliness is rampant in the Church.
2 Photograph: Getty Images Bute has a rare blend of worldliness and wilderness.
3 In their place she found only exceeding worldliness , or the flippant commonplace.
4 The prayers of souls given up to worldliness and ambition effect little.
5 That is madness, but it is also other - worldliness and the highest wisdom.
6 Such recreations are among the best preservatives against selfishness and vulgar worldliness .
7 She had read of passion which is stronger than the strongest worldliness .
8 I was astonished, pained-yetI had the worldliness to smile and praise.
9 Briony was impressed by the muted response-suchwas the three men's worldliness .
10 Extreme mysticism is as falsifying of our nature as is extreme worldliness .
11 Christianity leads us back from dispersion to concentration, from worldliness to self-recollection.
12 Ordinary unthinking worldliness sees nothing noticeable in them because they come uniformly.
13 When one enters on the path of worldliness is there any resting-place?
14 She was no longer a girl untainted by worldliness - sincere ,frank ,andopen.
15 My experiment in worldliness had me trapped, fuming, in a tiny apartment.
16 When nuns have relapsed from other - worldliness to this - worldliness how have they been?
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