Word Meanings - MEN-PLEASER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.
Related words: (words related to MEN-PLEASER)
- WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. - RATHER
Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville. - WORLDLY
1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining - WORLDLY-MINDED
Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n. - WORLD-WIDE
Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson. - PLEASER
One who pleases or gratifies. - WORLDLING
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. - PLEASE
1. To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions. What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more. Milton. For we that live to please, must please to live. Johnson. 2. To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure - WORLDLYWISE; WORLDLY-WISE
Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan. - WHOSE
The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden. - WORLDLINESS
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. - PLEASED
Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n. - MOTIVELESS
Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive. -- Mo"tive*less*ness, n. G. Eliot. - PLEASEMAN
An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. Shak. - WORLD
worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. veröld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime, age, ylde men, - MOTIVE
The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is (more info) 1. That which moves; a mover. Shak. 2. That - MANUMOTIVE
Movable by hand. - OVERPLEASE
To please excessively. - INTERWORLD
A world between other worlds. Holland. - PROMOTIVE
Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume. - UNDERWORLD
1. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. That overspreads This underworld. Daniel. 2. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades. 3. The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite - TIMEPLEASER
One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak. - EMOTIVENESS
Susceptibility to emotion. G. Eliot. - MEN-PLEASER
One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6. - DISPLEASER
One who displeases.