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English
Adjective
Earthly
- Alternative letter-case form of earthly.
1950, Edward E[lmer] Smith, First Lensman, Reading, Pa.: Fantasy Press, published 1952, pages 132, 136, and 139:Except at Trenco’s very poles there is not a spot in which or a time at which an Earthly gale would not constitute a dead calm; […] The wind was now scarcely more than an Earthly hurricane; […] its smaller stars, brilliant to Earthly eyes only because of their nearness, would be dimmer, perhaps invisible; […]
2008, Michael F. Wagner, “ Synchronicity and Asynchronicity”, in The Enigmatic Reality of Time: Aristotle, Plotinus, and Today (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition), Brill, →ISBN, part I (Dimensions of Time’s Enigma), page 91:The Earthly chronometer will indeed indicate that several decades have passed; whereas the spacely chronometer will indicate instead that several years have passed.
2018, Kate MacLeod, Being Neighborly, Ratatoskr Press, →ISBN:My parents had shown us lots of videos of home and if this was a sound an Earthly creature made, it wasn’t one on any of those videos.
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