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Example sentences for "wordly"

Lexicographically close words:
wordes; wording; wordis; wordless; wordlessly; words; wordum; wordy; wore; wored
  1. He will give you your wages, and will not ask of you your wordly wealth.

  2. The Nautch girls are purchased in infancy, and as carefully trained in their wordly way as the Devo Dasi for the diviner function, being about equally depraved.

  3. We accepted her decision with filial submission, due to our reverence for her wordly wisdom and the purity of her character.

  4. Hitherto, however, he seems to have prospered progressively, and to have had no reason to regret, even in a wordly sense, his choice of a profession.

  5. The words she had chosen seemed particularly adapted to her character; for Lucy Ashton's exquisitely beautiful, yet somewhat girlish features were formed to express peace of mind, serenity, and indifference to the tinsel of wordly pleasure.

  6. If wordly profit could have consoled the old man, his age was better provided for than his earlier years had ever been; but life had lost to him its salt and its savour.

  7. Her politic, wary, and wordly father felt for her an affection the strength of which sometimes surprised him into an unusual emotion.

  8. Wordly studies were almost excluded, or to speak more correctly, whenever wordly studies were brought upon the carpet, they were so evil entreated, that they well nigh lost all form and feature.

  9. Though wordly men do so, it never haps amongst friends.

  10. Ten consecutive days are passed in perfect abstraction from all wordly pursuits.

  11. The Exercises of Saint Ignatius, which immediately preceded the day of ordination, filled my heart with what appeared to me a settled distaste for every wordly pleasure.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wordly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.