The Collaborative International Dictionary
Worldling \World"ling\, [World + -ling.] A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments.
A foutre for the world and worldlings base.
--Shak.
If we consider the expectations of futurity, the
worldling gives up the argument.
--Rogers.
And worldlings blot the temple's gold.
--Keble.
Wiktionary
n. a mundane person, preoccupied with worldly matters rather than spiritual affairs
Usage examples of "worldling".
That cunning which is the wisdom of the worldling, and which he possessed in a very surprising degree, enabled him to adopt a course of conduct, look, and remark, which amply satisfied the exactions of the scrupulous, and secured the unhesitating confidence of those who were of a more yielding nature.
Once the wife of a man with a high place in the world, worldlings will be too wise to wound her by telling her that her grandfather was an unconvicted felon.
The sneer and sarcasm of the worldling would anticipate the favoring judgment of the indulgent and the wise.
But, he told his hearers, the text had seemed to him specially adapted for the guidance of those whose lot it was to lead the life of the world and who yet wished to lead that life not in the manner of worldlings.
There was too much of the worldling in the looks, dress, air, and manner of Stevens, to satisfy the rustic of his sincerity.
And that whatever you tell me, no matter how unbelievable it is by the standards of the Worldlings, I will believe that it is so, though I may require an explanation of it, should it lie outside my own experience.
My Game course was only a series of summer classes for pitiable worldlings and dilettantes like myself.
Candid reasons of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of a reading-desk.