temporalty
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See temporality.
Noun[edit]
temporalty (plural temporalties)
- (obsolete) The 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.
- 1606-1609, Robert Abbot, A Defence of the Reformed Catholic of Mr. William Perkins
- (obsolete) A secular possession; a temporality.
References[edit]
- “temporalty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.