worldkin

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English

Etymology

From world +‎ -kin.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: world‧kin
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Noun

worldkin (plural worldkins)

  1. A diminutive or miniature world; microcosm.
    • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “The Everlasting Yea”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 136:
      I too could now say to myself: Be no longer a Chaos, but a World, or even Worldkin. Produce! Produce!
    • 1900, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic Monthly:
      How in this humdrum worldkin of ours did mortal men ever come to do this madness?
    • 1979, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr, Essays, first series:
      "Our little worldkin is very quiet & nothing is new therein. […] "
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