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temporality
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun temporality has 1 sense
- temporality(n = noun.possession) temporalty - the worldly possessions of a church; Array is a kind of church property, spirituality, spiritualty
CIDE DICTIONARY
temporality, n. [L. temporalitas, in LL., possessions of the church: cf. F. temporalité.].
- The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. [1913 Webster]
- The laity; temporality. Sir T. More. [1913 Webster]
- That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the like; -- chiefly used in the plural. [1913 Webster]"Supreme head, . . . under God, of the spirituality and temporality of the same church." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
temporality, n. (pl. -ies)
1 temporariness.
2 (usu. in pl.) a secular possession, esp. the properties and revenues of a religious corporation or an ecclesiastic.
1 temporariness.
2 (usu. in pl.) a secular possession, esp. the properties and revenues of a religious corporation or an ecclesiastic.
Etymology
ME f. LL temporalitas (as TEMPORAL)
ROGET THESAURUS
temporality
Laity
N laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people, society, temporality, secularization, layman, civilian, parishioner, catechumen, secularist, secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.
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