What is "callings"

Usage examples of "callings".

Still the mere routinists and unthinking artisans in most callings dislike whatever shakes the dust out of their traditions, and it may be unreasonable to expect that Medicine will always prove an exception to the rule.

Now will the city have to fill and swell with a multitude of callings which are not required by any natural want.

Still, we know our own callings, and they are what I consider natural callings, and are not parvarted by vanity and wantonness.

As to smuggling, and the like of that, why, I'm a seafaring man, and I suppose all callings have their weak spots.

One was a butcher, but calls himself a surgeon in his will, a union of callings which suggests an obvious pleasantry.

But it is well that the two callings have been separated, and it is fitting that they remain apart.

My dear colaborer, you and I can't effec­tively fulfill our callings if we don't watch after our health.

By all measures of a tribesman Akar Kessell was weak, using tricks and demonic callings to do the work of muscle.

They were, as befitted those bent on founding a colony, of considerable variety, though it should be understood that the vocations given were, so far as ascertained, the callings the individuals who represented them had followed before taking ship.

Besides these occupations, it is known that several of the individuals representing them were skilled in other callings, and were at some time teachers, accountants, linguists, writers, etc.