KJV Dictionary Definition: earthliness

earthliness

EARTH'LINESS, n. from earthly. The quality of being earthly; grossness.

1. Worldliness; strong attachment to worldly things.

earthly

EARTH'LY, a. Pertaining to the earth, or to this world.

Our earthly house of this tabernacle. 2 Cor.5.

1. Not heavenly; vile; mean,

This earthly load

Of death called life.

2. Belonging to our present state; as earthly objects; earthly residence.

3. Belonging to the earth or world; carnal; vile; as opposed to spiritual or heavenly.

Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. Phil.3.

4. Corporeal; not mental.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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