Translation for "worldling" to spanish
Worldling
Translation examples
If then we accept Aunt Hester’s view, Gibbon was a worldling, wallowing in the vanities of the flesh, scoffing at the holiness of the faith.
Si aceptamos la opinión de la tía Hester, Gibbon era un mundano encenagado en las vanidades de la carne, que se burlaba de la santidad de la fe.
When she opened her shutters to let in the light, she would find them,—and they would perhaps give her a sudden distaste for coarse worldlings like Frank Ellinger.
Cuando abriese las contraventanas para que entrara la luz, se las encontraría, y quizá le inspirasen una súbita aversión por personas mundanas y groseras como Frank Ellinger.
      On this account all the serene souls who loved the earth and its fruits had gradually gathered together at Haarlem, just as all the nervous, uneasy spirits, whose ambition was for travel and commerce, had settled in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and all the politicians and selfish worldlings at the Hague.       We have observed that Leyden overflowed with scholars.
Así pues, se había visto establecerse en Haarlem a todos aquellos espíritus tranquilos que poseían el amor a la tierra y a sus bienes, como se había visto establecerse en Rótterdam y en Ámsterdam a todos los espíritus inquietos y movidos, que poseían la afición a los viajes y al comercio, como se había visto establecerse en La Haya a todos los políticos mundanos.
Through him I came to know the Sacred College as it really was; not the very home and fount of Christianity, as I had deemed it, controlled and guided by men of a sublime saintliness of ways, but a gathering of ambitious worldlings, who had become so brazen in their greed of temporal power that they did not even trouble to cloak the sin and evil in which they lived; men in whom the spirit that had actuated those saints the study of whose lives had been my early delight, lived no more than it might live in the bosom of a harlot.
Y por él llegué a saber lo que era, en realidad, el «Sacro Colegio»: no la casa santa donde se practicaban los dulces preceptos cristianos, como yo me había imaginado hasta entonces, sino una reunión de apetitos mundanos, que habían llegado a un grado tal de descaro y cinismo en su sed insaciable de poder temporal y de honores y riquezas, que no intentaban cubrir siquiera con un manto de santidad las monstruosidades de sus pecados.
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