worldkin
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: world‧kin
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɜːldkɪn/
Noun edit
worldkin (plural worldkins)
- A diminutive or miniature world; microcosm.
- 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “The Everlasting Yea”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book second, page 136:
- I too could now say to myself: Be no longer a Chaos, but a World, or even Worldkin. Produce! Produce!
- 1900, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic Monthly:
- How in this humdrum worldkin of ours did mortal men ever come to do this madness?
- 1979, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr, Essays, first series:
- "Our little worldkin is very quiet & nothing is new therein. […] "