otherworldly(adj.)
1854年,“在这个生命中受到与来世有关的动机支配”,来自 other + world + -ly (1)。到1873年,“与想象世界有关的”。
Otherworldliness 记录于1819年。短语 other world 来自公元1200年左右(oþre weorlde),意为“来世,灵界,未来的世界”; 公元1300年左右,意为“理想主义或幻想的世界,一种不同于正常状态的存在状态”,但 otherworldliness 似乎是由 worldliness 形成的。利·亨特(Leigh Hunt)首次在印刷品中使用了这个词,在1819年12月19日的《检查员》(The Examiner)中使用了这个词,但据报道,科勒律治在托马斯·奥尔索普(Thomas Allsop)从科勒律治的信件和谈话中选出的选集(1836年)中使用了这个词,这些信件和谈话涵盖了1818-22年,此后这个词有时被归因于科勒律治:
As there is a worldliness or the too much of this life, so there is another-worldliness, or rather other worldliness, equally hateful and selfish with this worldliness.
正如有一种 worldliness 或过于追求现世生活,同样有一种 another-worldliness,或者更确切地说是 other worldliness,同这种世俗主义一样可憎和自私。
亨特在他的《自传》(1850)中写道:
I hope I am not giving fresh instance of a weakness which I suppose myself to have outgrown; much less appropriating an invention which does not belong to me; but an accomplished authoress one day (Mrs. Jameson), at the table of my friend Barry Cornwall, quoted the term "otherworldliness" from Coleridge. I said Coleridge was rich enough not to need the transference to him of other men's property; and that I felt so much honoured by the supposition in this instance, that I could not help claiming the word as my own. If Coleridge, indeed, used it before me, I can only say that I was not aware of it, and that my own reflections, very much accustomed to that side of speculation, would have suggested an identical thought.
我希望我没有再次表现出我认为自己已经克服的弱点; 更不用说占有不属于我的发明了; 但是一位有才华的女作家(詹姆森夫人)在我朋友巴里·康沃尔(Barry Cornwall)的餐桌上引用了科勒律治的“otherworldliness”这个词。我说科勒律治已经足够富有,不需要将其他人的财产转让给他; 而且我在这种情况下感到非常荣幸,所以我不能不将这个词归为我自己所有。如果科勒律治在我之前使用了它,我只能说我不知道,而且我的思考非常习惯于这种思考方式,会想到同样的想法。
该词起源时间:1854年