See worldly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "worltliche",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "enm",
"10": "{{{3}}}",
"11": "",
"12": "{{{sup2}}}",
"2": "adjective",
"3": "",
"4": "{{{1}}}",
"5": "",
"6": "{{{2}}}",
"7": "",
"8": "{{{comp2}}}",
"9": "",
"f3l": "",
"f5l": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "worldly",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "worldly",
"name": "enm-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"In the way of the material world."
],
"links": [
[
"way",
"way"
],
[
"material",
"material"
],
[
"world",
"world"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"In a mundane or secular way."
],
"links": [
[
"mundane",
"mundane"
],
[
"secular",
"secular"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwur(l)dliː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɛr(l)dliː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/-lit͡ʃ(ə)/"
}
],
"word": "worldly"
}
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{
"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''Mundane, secular; unrelated to'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"worldly"
],
"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "worldly",
"trace": ""
}
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