英和和英

形容詞

this-worldly (comparative more this-worldly, superlative most this-worldly)

1. Pertaining to or concerned with material human existence, as opposed to spiritual or religious matters.
   • 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi:

     The guests were always this-worldly, and often profane.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 1014:

     Changing attitudes to death and Hell mark a growth of this-worldly concerns in a large part of contemporary Christianity.

派生語

• this-worldliness

反意語

• other-worldly