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Definition of Earthliness
1. n. The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
Definition of Earthliness
1. Noun. The quality of being earthly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Earthliness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earthliness
Literary usage of Earthliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign by James Wood (1893)
"... who has in his own bosom a spirit ne dares not meet alone ; whose voice,
smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like ..."
2. Content in a Garden by Candace Wheeler (1901)
"Oh, what is it ? what is it? your finer senses will cry, and all the time it is
falling upon them like a benediction — an odor purged of earthliness — a ..."
3. Choice of Choices [poems] (1905)
"... musing Solitude might love to lift Her soul above this sphere of earthliness;
Where silence undisturbed might watch alone So cold, so bright, so still. ..."
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