Definition of "worldling" []

• One who is absorbed by worldly pursuits and pleasures. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The harvest which the worldling is proud of the hungry eat up"
• "Wealth to a worldling is like drink to one in a dropsy, which does but increase the thirst."
• "But they should understand their relation to the impenitent worldling, which is precisely that of a physician without a mandate from the patient, who may not be convinced that there is very much the matter with him."