temporalty

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noun

The laity; secular people.

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temporalitylaity
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Meanings

nountemporalty (plural temporalties)

plural temporalties

  1. obsoleteThe laity; secular people.

    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. obsoleteA secular possession; a temporality.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe worldly possessions of a church

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temporality
Broader
spiritualtyspiritualitychurch property

nounin Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy

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laity
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multitudemassesmass
Also see
laitytemporality

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

See temporality.

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APA

temporalty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/temporalty

MLA

“temporalty.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/temporalty. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “temporalty,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/temporalty.

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