"wordly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From word + -ly. Compare Dutch woordelijk, German wörtlich.",
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      "form": "more wordly",
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        {
          "ref": "1921, Ben Hecht, Erik Dorn - Page 248",
          "text": "But I feel an impulse to scribble wordly words, to stand in a silk hat beside the statue of Liberty and gaze out upon the Atlantic with a Carlylian pensiveness.",
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        {
          "ref": "1970, Benjamin Charles Milner, Calvin's Doctrine of the Church - Page 105",
          "text": "\"The reality of the wordly words as the word of God is not pneumatologically grounded by Calvin — neither is the church proclaimed word in virtue of its power of divine ordinance a word of God's Spirit imparted for all times, nor is it made more and more God's word through the Holy Spirit—[...]",
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          "ref": "1993, William H. Poteat, James M. Nickell, James W. Stines, The Primacy of Persons and the Language of Culture: Essays",
          "text": "For in speaking of \"syntax,\" I have employed a concept that is used about the use of words. I have, in other words, \"talked\" about the nonverbal in a \"wordly\" way.",
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          "ref": "2008, Manuel Dries, Nietzsche on Time and History - Page 157",
          "text": "We notice here a shift from 'literal' in a wordly sense (cf. the German wörtlich), pertaining to written words as such, to a descriptive sense, pertaining to how a text (or the world) is understood.",
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        "Of, relating to, or resembling a word; verbal."
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        "(rare) Of, relating to, or resembling a word; verbal."
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  "word": "wordly"
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      "expansion": "German wörtlich",
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  "etymology_text": "From word + -ly. Compare Dutch woordelijk, German wörtlich.",
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    {
      "form": "more wordly",
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