unworldly
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[edit]unworldly (comparative unworldlier, superlative unworldliest)
- Exceeding what is typically found in the world; exceptional, transcendent.
- Characterising people who are unconcerned with worldly matters; spiritually minded.
- Synonym: otherworldly
- 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVII, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II:
- ‘But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.’
- 1982 August 28, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 18:
- I am an aspiring theological writer-artist, Alien Christian Mystic, unworldly, contemplative.
- Not belonging to this world; celestial.
- Synonym: otherworldly
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 35:
- This creature from a higher world has not forgotten all that he knew before; he retains his unworldly talents and supreme intelligence.
- Lacking sophistication.
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[edit]spiritually minded
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