temporalty

English

Etymology

See temporality.

Noun

temporalty (plural temporalties)

  1. (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.
  2. (obsolete) A secular possession; a temporality.

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