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temporalities

temporalities noun: the temporal or worldly possessions of the clergy. Also the plural of temporality.

Noun

temporalities

  1. the temporal or worldly possessions of the clergy
    • The profits of my living, which amounted to but thirty-five pounds a year, I made over to the orphans and widows of the clergy of our diocese; for having a sufficient fortune of my own, I was careless of temporalities, and felt a secret pleasure in doing my duty without reward1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 1, in The Vicar of Wakefield

Also used as

temporalities is also the plural of temporality.

Questions about temporalities

What does temporalities mean?
Temporalities means the temporal or worldly possessions of the clergy.
What part of speech is temporalities?
Temporalities is a noun.

Words near temporalities in the dictionary

  1. temporalisms
  2. temporalist
  3. temporalistic
  4. temporalistically
  5. temporalists
  6. temporalities
  7. temporality
  8. temporalization
  9. temporalizations
  10. temporalize
  11. temporalized

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