spirituality
English
Etymology
From Middle French spiritualité, from Late Latin spiritualitas.
Pronunciation
Noun
spirituality (countable and uncountable, plural spiritualities)
- The quality or state of being spiritual.
- South
- a pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality.
- Bickersteth
- Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come.
- South
- Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
- Appreciation for religious values.
- (obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
- Blackstone
- During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof.
- Blackstone
- (obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
- Fuller
- Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality.
- Fuller
Translations
quality or state of being spiritual
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concern for what is unseen and intangible
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appreciation for religious values
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that which belongs to the church, as distinct from temporalities
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whole body of the clergy
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