world-despising

Updated: May 14, 2025

Exhausted with rage, he fancied that he had given himself up to pious contrition and world-despising godliness. As the tones of the music were again heard, he experienced a pious exasperation over this unholy levity, a peaceful self-content; he belonged not to the ungodly, who gave themselves up to worldliness and vanity, but alone and deserted he prayed to his Father in heaven.

L. (Luise) Mühlbach - Frederick the Great and His Court