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English
Etymology
From world + -ling.
Noun
worldling (plural worldlings)
- A mundane person, preoccupied with worldly affairs rather than spiritual matters.
1600, Nicholas Breton, “A Solemn Farewell to the World”, in Melancholike Humours, in Verses of Diverse Natures:These wicked wares, that worldlings buy and sell,
The moth will eat, or else the canker rust:
All flesh is grass, and to the grave it must.
1888, The Lady's Book - Volumes 6-7, page 243:Disgusted with the world and worldlings, I drove down to an estate of my father's, in Suffolk, determined to “misanthropise” and be romantic ; but all my plans were disconcerted by the “Large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands” of Miss Emily Hathenden, whose estate bordered on my own.
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967