dustling

English

Etymology

From dust +‎ -ling.

Noun

dustling (plural dustlings)

1. A small grain or particle; mote; speck.
   • 2012, Jasper Reid, The Metaphysics of Henry More:

     Now Gods Almightiness is within the least punctum physicum, or dustling of body, ('twas made and is kept in being by Almightiness). But Gods Almightiness being God himself, himself is there altogether.

2. One formed from the dust; human being.
   • 2010, W. David O. Taylor, For the Beauty of the Church:

     Without culture, without a garden, how could this human dustling survive in the wildness of even a very good created world?