Definition of "world-hardened" [world-hardened]

• Hardened by the love of worldly things.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But album covers, even those made for kids, are designed by grown-up, world-hardened ..."
• "But album covers, even those made for kids, are designed by grown-up, world-hardened and bitter adults."
• "The simple candor of the old man, no longer the stock-jobber, who, for the first time in his life, saw that something was more sacred and more precious than gold, really moved these world-hardened men; some exchanged smiles; other looked at Nucingen with an expression that plainly said, “Such a man to have come to this!” —"