Unworldly

a. [UN-¹ 7.]

  1.  Of a type transcending or exceeding what is usually found or experienced in the world.

1707.  G. Hickes, Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (1711), II. 5. That pre-eminent unworldly Power … which the Spiritual Governours … have over their Spiritual Subjects.

1817.  Coleridge, Lay Serm., 73. The impressive example of their unworldly feelings.

1848.  Aird, Chr. Bride, I. xxiv. Sequestered they in love’s unworldly dream.

1863.  Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., xi. 291. They are in another world, and they revel in unworldly thoughts and unworldly associations.

  Comb.  1805.  Wordsw., Prelude, IV. 290. A wild, unworldly-minded youth.

  b.  Of persons: Actuated by other than worldly or sordid motives; spiritually minded.

1825.  T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. III. 180. I know you are guileless, Ma’am, and unworldly.

1844.  Kinglake, Eöthen, xx. This unworldly Sphynx has watched and watched like a Providence.

1855.  Milman, Lat. Chr., VII. vi. III. 225. The pious but not unworldly merchants of Venice.

  2.  Not belonging to this world; celestial.

1765.  Sterne, Tr. Shandy, VII. vi. That all-powerful fire which … lights the spirits through unworldly tracts!