What is "world without end"

World \World\, n. [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS. weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. ver["o]ld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime, age, ylde men, humanity. Cf. Werewolf, Old.]

1. The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.

   The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen.
   --Rom. 1. 20.

   With desire to know, What nearer might concern him, how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began.
   --Milton.

2. Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. ``Lord of the worlds above.''
   --I. Watts.

   Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Star distant, but high-hand seemed other worlds.
   --Milton.

   There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants have never violated their allegiance to their almighty Sovereign.
   --W. B. Sprague.

3. The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human affairs and interests.

   That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
   --Milton.

4. In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world.

   One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be my surety.
   --Shak.

   Murmuring that now they must be put to make war beyond the world's end -- for so they counted Britain.
   --Milton.

5. The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.

   Happy is she that from the world retires.
   --Waller.

   If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious, May Juba ever live in ignorance.
   --Addison.

6. Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew.

7. The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the public; mankind.

   Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it.
   --Shak.

   Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For undertaking so unstaid a journey?
   --Shak.

8. The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind.

   I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
   --John xvii.

9. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. --1 John ii. 15, 16. 9. As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number. ``A world of men.'' --Chapman. ``A world of blossoms for the bee.'' --Bryant. Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company. --Shak. A world of woes dispatched in little space. --Dryden. All . . . in the world, all that exists; all that is possible; as, all the precaution in the world would not save him. A world to see, a wonder to see; something admirable or surprising to see. [Obs.] O, you are novices; 't is a world to see How tame, when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. --Shak. For all the world.

   1. Precisely; exactly.

   2. For any consideration.

      Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

      To go to the world, to be married. [Obs.] ``Thus goes every one to the world but I . . .; I may sit in a corner and cry heighho for a husband!''
      --Shak.

      World's end, the end, or most distant part, of the world; the remotest regions.

      World without end, eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if in a state of existence having no end.

      Throughout all ages, world without end.
      --Eph. iii. 21.

adv. (context idiomatic English) for all time

World Without End (aka Flight to the Future) is a science fiction B-film, produced in 1956 by Allied Artists. It stars Hugh Marlowe and Nancy Gates, and was directed by Edward Bernds. World Without End was shot in CinemaScope Technicolor.

World Without End was an early screen role of Australian-born Rod Taylor.

World Without End is a Star Trek novel, written in 1979 by Joe Haldeman.

World Without End is a six-issue comic book limited series, created by Jamie Delano and illustrated by John Higgins, released by DC Comics in 1990.

World Without End is a best-selling 2007 novel by British author Ken Follett. It is the sequel to 1989's The Pillars of the Earth.

World Without End takes place in the same fictional town as Pillars of the Earth — Kingsbridge — and features the descendants of some Pillars characters 157 years later. The plot incorporates two major historical events, the start of the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death. The author was inspired by real historical events relating to the Cathedral of Santa María in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

A television miniseries based on the novel aired worldwide in 2012. It premiered on Showcase in Canada on 4 September 2012; in the United States on Reelz Channel on 17 October 2012; on Channel 4 in the UK on 22 December, and on Star Movies in the Philippines in January 2013. The eight-part television event miniseries stars Cynthia Nixon, Miranda Richardson, Peter Firth, Ben Chaplin, Charlotte Riley, Sarah Gadon and Tom Weston-Jones. It was directed by Michael Caton-Jones who also directed the historical epic Rob Roy.

World Without End may refer to:

• "world without end" is the King James Bible of the biblical phrase in saecula saeculorum in Ephesians 3:21.
• World Without End (film), a 1956 science fiction B movie
• World Without End (1953 film), a 1953 documentary directed by Basil Wright and Paul Rotha
• World Without End (Haldeman novel), a 1979 Star Trek novel by Joe Haldeman
• World Without End (Follett novel), a 2007 novel by Ken Follett, sequel to The Pillars of the Earth
• World Without End (miniseries), a 2012 television adaptation of the Follett novel, sequel to the earlier TV miniseries The Pillars of the Earth
• World Without End (comics), a 1990 limited series from DC Comics written by Jamie Delano
• World Without End (The Mighty Lemon Drops album), a 1988 album by the Mighty Lemon Drops
• World Without End (De/Vision album), a 1994 album by De/Vision
• "World Without End", a song by Five Iron Frenzy from the 2000 album All the Hype That Money Can Buy

World Without End released in 1988 was the third album by The Mighty Lemon Drops. The album features their hit single "Inside Out". The album was produced and mixed by Tim Palmer and recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales and Utopia Studios in London.

World Without End is an eight-episode 2012 television miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Ken Follett. It is a sequel to the 2010 miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, also based on a Follett novel. World Without End is set 150 years after The Pillars of the Earth and chronicles the experiences of the fictional English town of Kingsbridge during the start of the Hundred Years' War and the outbreak of the Black Death. The cast is led by Cynthia Nixon, Miranda Richardson, Ben Chaplin, Peter Firth, Charlotte Riley, and Tom Weston-Jones. The miniseries varies significantly from the novel in both the plot and characterizations.

Filming took place in Hungary, Slovakia and Austria. John Pielmeier adapted the screenplay and Michael Caton-Jones directed all eight episodes.