wordly

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English

Etymology

From word +‎ -ly. Compare Dutch woordelijk, German wörtlich.

Adjective

wordly (comparative more wordly, superlative most wordly)

  1. (rare) Of, relating to, or resembling a word; verbal.
    • 1921, Ben Hecht, Erik Dorn - Page 248:
      But I feel an impulse to scribble wordly words, to stand in a silk hat beside the statue of Liberty and gaze out upon the Atlantic with a Carlylian pensiveness.
    • 1970, Benjamin Charles Milner, Calvin's Doctrine of the Church - Page 105:
      "The reality of the wordly words as the word of God is not pneumatologically grounded by Calvin — neither is the church proclaimed word in virtue of its power of divine ordinance a word of God's Spirit imparted for all times, nor is it made more and more God's word through the Holy Spirit—[...]
    • 1993, William H. Poteat, James M. Nickell, James W. Stines, The Primacy of Persons and the Language of Culture: Essays:
      For in speaking of "syntax," I have employed a concept that is used about the use of words. I have, in other words, "talked" about the nonverbal in a "wordly" way.
    • 2008, Manuel Dries, Nietzsche on Time and History - Page 157:
      We notice here a shift from 'literal' in a wordly sense (cf. the German wörtlich), pertaining to written words as such, to a descriptive sense, pertaining to how a text (or the world) is understood.

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Etymology 1

Adjective

wordly

  1. Alternative form of worldly (adjective)

Etymology 2

Adverb

wordly

  1. Alternative form of worldly (adverb)
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