worldly-experienced

Updated: May 21, 2025

There was certainly a cold spell in the document; a magic, not of fire, but of ice; and Septimius the more exemplified its power, in that he soon began to be insensible of it. It affected him as if it had been written by some greatly wise and worldly-experienced man, like the writer of Ecclesiastes; for it was full of truth.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life