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earthly Definition

earthly (ʉrt̸h′lē)

adjective

  1. of the earth; specif.,
    1. terrestrial
    2. worldly
    3. temporal or secular
  2. conceivable; possible a thing of no earthly good

earthly Related Forms
earth′·li·ness noun
earthly Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • paradise: In the serene atmosphere of my earthly paradise I would be safe from all evil.
  • ministry: Instead, during his earthly ministry, Jesus is without any visible means of support.
  • tabernacle: If he has to put off this earthly tabernacle, he knows there is a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.
  • sojourn: In this sense, during His earthly sojourn, the " external glory " was utterly laid aside.
  • kingdom: Into that earthly kingdom will come people who are physical just like we are, who haven't died.

Modifying Another Word

  • only: The church is the only earthly expression of heaven.
  • not: The daughter of enthusiasm, rapture, passion, and despair, she is of the earth but not earthly.
  • equally: In another view, and in a view, for practical application quite as important, they are alike and equally earthly.
  • merely: All others are merely earthly replicas, imperfect because they are bound up in our finiteness, yet illustrating a vital eternal reality.
  • even: The scope of the poetry is not, however, constrained by geographical or even earthly boundaries.
earthly Quotes

I vow to thee, my countryöall earthly things aboveö Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love.

—Spring-Rice, Sir Cecil Arthur

Peace; come away: the song of woe Is after all an earthly song: Peace; come away: we do him wrong To sing so wildly: let us go.

—Tennyson

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures; no restoratives Like to a constant woman.

—Ford,John

   Now of wemen this I say for me, Off erthly thingis nane may bettir be; Thay suld haif wirschep and great honoring Off men, aboif all uthir erthly thing.

—Dumas, Alexandre, pe'  re

He knew too well for any earthly use The line where man leaves off and nature starts, And never overstepped it save in dreams.

—Frost, Robert Lee