wordling

English

Etymology

See worldling.

Noun

wordling (plural wordlings)

1. (nonstandard, misspelling) Worldling.
   • 1573, T. Cooper, “An Epiſtle to the Reader”, in A briefe exposition of ſuch Chapters of the olde testament […] , London:  […] H. D. for Rafe Newbery, page iiij:

     Yea, and the verye Godleſſe wordling that is furtheſt from all true ſenſe of Religion and holyneffe, ſhall heare thoſe terrible threatninges of Gods iustice, that when God ſhall touch him by ſickeneſſe or other affliction,bee hee neuer ſo deſperate, ſhall make his conſcience to quake.

   • 1658, Samuel Crook, “The Worldly Hypocrite” (chapter XIV), in Τα Διαφέροντα, or Divine Characters in Two Parts, London:  […] A. B. and  […] Joseph Cranford, page 140:

     No Wordling will acknowledge how much and how farre he minds earthly things, even when he condemnerh others of the ſame ſin.

   • 1661, Nathaniel Culverwell, “The Light of Reaſon is a Derivative Light” (chapter XI), in An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature, London:  […] Tho. Royeroft, for William Grantham, page 89:

     why doth he think himſelf a 'Wordling'? why doth he measure himſelf by 'Earth, if he were born of Heaven?