9. As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large
number. "A world of men." Chapman. "A world of blossoms for the bee."
Bryant.
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company.
Shak.
A world of woes dispatched in little space.
Dryden.
All . . . in the world, all that exists; all that is possible; as, all
the precaution in the world would not save him. — A world to see, a
wonder to see; something admirable or surprising to see. [Obs.]
O, you are novices; 't is a world to see How tame, when men and women
are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
Shak.
— For all the world. (a) Precisely; exactly. (b) For any consideration.
— Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in
Fiction. — To go to the world, to be married. [Obs.] "Thus goes every
one to the world but I . . . ; I may sit in a corner and cry heighho
for a husband!" Shak. — World's end, the end, or most distant part, of
the world; the remotest regions. — World without end, eternally;
forever; everlastingly; as if in a state of existence having no end.
Throughout all ages, world without end.
Eph. iii. 21.
World"li*ness (?), n. The quality of being worldly; a predominant
passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness;
addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly- mindedness.
World"ling (?), [World + -ling.] A person whose soul is set upon
gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its
enjoyments.
A foutre for the world and worldlings base.
Shak.
If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the
argument.
Rogers.
And worldlings blot the temple's gold.
Keble.