Obs. rare. [f. WORLD sb. + -HOOD.]

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  1.  Worldly possessions.

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15[?].  Hen. VIII., in D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1841), II. 136. Content yourselves with what you have already, or else seek honest means whereby to increase your worldhoods.

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  2.  State or condition as a world.

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1674.  N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 183. Not in the world as now ’tis, but chang’d in its kind of worldhood.

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