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temporalty

temporalty noun: the laity; secular people.

Noun

temporalty (plural temporalties)

  1. (obsolete) The laity; secular people.
    • 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.1606-1609, Robert Abbot, A Defence of the Reformed Catholic of Mr. William Perkins
  2. (obsolete) A secular possession; a temporality.

Forms of temporalty

pluraltemporalties

Origin of temporalty

See temporality.

Questions about temporalty

What does temporalty mean?
Temporalty means the laity; secular people.
What part of speech is temporalty?
Temporalty is a noun.
What is the plural of temporalty?
The plural of temporalty is temporalties.

Words near temporalty in the dictionary

  1. temporall
  2. temporally
  3. temporalness
  4. temporals
  5. temporalties
  6. temporalty
  7. temporalward
  8. temporalwards
  9. temporaneous
  10. temporaneously
  11. temporaneousness

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