What does EARTHLY mean?

Definitions for EARTHLY
ˈɜrθ liearth·ly

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. earthlyadjective

    of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven

    "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home"

Wiktionary

  1. earthlynoun

    A slightest chance (of success etc.) or idea (about something).

  2. earthlyadverb

    in an earthy manner

  3. earthlyadjective

    Relating to the earth or this world, as opposed to heaven.

  4. Etymology: eorþlic, corresponding to.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Earthlyadjective

    Etymology: from earth.

    But I remember now
    I’m in this earthly world, where to do harm
    Is often laudable; to do good, sometime
    Accounted dangerous folly. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    When faith and love, which parted from thee never,
    Had ripen’d thy just soul to dwell with God,
    Meekly thou didst resign this earthly load
    Of death, call’d life. John Milton.

    Our common necessities, and the lack which we all have as well of ghostly as of earthly favours, is in each kind easily known. Richard Hooker.

    You have scarce time
    To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span,
    To keep your earthly audit. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

    It must be our solemn business and endeavour, at fit seasons, to turn the stream of our thoughts from earthly towards divine objects. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

    Great grace that old man to him given had,
    For God he often saw, from heaven hight,
    All were his earthly eyen both blunt and bad. Fairy Queen.

    Sudden he view’d, in spite of all her art,
    An earthly lover lurking at her heart. Alexander Pope, Ra. of the Lock.

    Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,
    Charm’d the small-pox, or chas’d old age away,
    Who would not scorn what housewife’s cares produce?
    Or who would learn one earthly thing of use? Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. earthly

    Earthly refers to something that belongs or relates to the earth, represents worldly or temporal matters as opposed to spiritual or heavenly matters, or something that is possible, real, tangible, or practical in the physical world.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Earthlyadjective

    pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise

  2. Earthlyadjective

    of all things on earth; possible; conceivable

  3. Earthlyadjective

    made of earth; earthy

  4. Earthlyadverb

    in the manner of the earth or its people; worldly

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Anagrams for EARTHLY »

  1. lathery

  2. heartly

  3. rathely

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of EARTHLY in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of EARTHLY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of EARTHLY in a Sentence

  1. The Republican presidential candidate:

    An earthly court does n’t change for me the institution that was created, defined by God, my Christian faith teaches me that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  2. Plato:

    I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.

  3. William Shakespeare:

    I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

  4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

    We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

  5. François Fénelon:

    All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

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