this-worldly

comparative more this-worldly · superlative most this-worldly

1. Pertaining to or concerned with material human existence, as opposed to spiritual or religious matters.

   The guests were always this-worldly, and often profane.

   1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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   Changing attitudes to death and Hell mark a growth of this-worldly concerns in a large part of contemporary Christianity.

   2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 1014