English Explanatory Dictionary

contemptus mundi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Contempt for worldly concerns or secular life.

Word forms

contemptus mundi

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin contemptus mundī (literally “contempt for the world”), as used in works such as Bernard of Cluny’s De contemptu mundi. First attested in the mid-19th century in English.

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