[Cf. spiritually minded SPIRITUALLY adv. 1 b.] The quality or state of being spiritually minded or of having the mind set upon spiritual things.
1647. N. Ward, Simp. Cobler, 43. I have … seen so much … spirituall mindednesse in … Christians.
1688. Owen, Dominion of Sin & Grace, Wks. 1852, VII. 524. This case of the affections I have handled … at large in my discourse of Spiritual-mindedness.
1791. Boswell, Johnson, 22 March 1776. I have always loved the simplicity of manners, and the spiritual-mindedness of the Quakers.
1863. Grosart, Small Sins (ed. 2), 82. No lamentation over want of spiritual-mindedness.
