temporall
temporall is the obsolete spelling of temporal.
Meaning of temporal
Adjective
temporal (not generally comparable, comparative more temporal, superlative most temporal)
- Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
- temporal power, temporal courts
- Synonyms:
- secular, lay, civil, worldly, areligious, earthly, irreligious, laicist, laicistic, mundane
- Antonyms:
- spiritual, ecclesiastical
- Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
- The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 4:18
- Lasting for a short time only.
- Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
- Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
- Synonyms:
- chronological
- Relating to or denoting time or tense.
Forms of temporall
| comparative | more temporall |
|---|---|
| superlative | most temporall |
Questions about temporall
- What is temporall the obsolete spelling of?
- Temporall is the obsolete spelling of temporal.
Words near temporall in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: temporall (page history and authors); temporal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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