Temporalty

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The laity; secular people. obsolete

    "1606-1609, Robert Abbot, A Defence of the Reformed Catholic of Mr. William Perkins Whereas you alleadge your Catholickely affected in euerie degree not of the Temporalty : only but also of the Clergie, hardly the highest degrees of honour to be expected."

  2. 2
    in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy wordnet
  3. 3
    A secular possession; a temporality. obsolete
  4. 4
    the worldly possessions of a church wordnet

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laitylaitytemporality

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"1606-1609, Robert Abbot, A Defence of the Reformed Catholic of Mr. William Perkins Whereas you alleadge your Catholickely affected in euerie degree not of the Temporalty : only but also of the Clergie, hardly the highest degrees of honour to be expected."

Etymology

See temporality.

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