An archaic form of 'earthly,' meaning belonging to or characteristic of the earth or the material world.
Archaic variant of 'earthly,' using older English morphology. The '-ly' suffix creates adjectives from nouns in Middle and Early Modern English.
Medieval writers distinguished between 'erthly' (worldly, material) and 'heavenly' (spiritual)—this word pair structured how people thought about existence as either temporary earthly life or eternal heaven.
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