warld

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Scots

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English werld, variant of world, from Old English weorold, from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz.

Noun

warld (countable and uncountable, plural warlds)

  1. world
    • 1983, William Lorimer, transl., The New Testament in Scots, Edinburgh: Canongate, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, John 3:17:
      For God sentna his Son intil the warld tae condemn the warld, but at the warld suid be saufed throu him.
      Because God didn't send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but so the world would be saved through him.