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noun

Temporalty n.

The laity; secular people. (Obs.)

A secular possession; a temporality.

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Etymology of 'Temporalty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Temporalty" Quotes from Famous Books

... convent asked the abbot what the news were. "What news," said the abbot, "evil news. The king is ruled by a common —— Anne Boleyn, who has made all the spiritualty to be beggared, and the temporalty also. Further he told the prior of a sermon that he had heard in York, in which it was said, when a great wind rose in the west we should hear news. And he asked what that was; and he said a great man told him ...

— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude

... false and erroneous doctrine hath been taught, preached, and written, partly by divers natural-born subjects of this realm, and partly being brought in hither from sundry foreign countries, hath been sown {p.181} and spread abroad within the same—by reason whereof as well the spiritualty as the temporalty of your highness's realm and dominions have swerved from the obedience of the See Apostolic, and declined from the unity of Christ's Church, and so have continued until such time as—your majesty ...

— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude

Words linked to "Temporalty" : hoi polloi, laity, people, temporality, masses, layperson, church property, layman, clergy, spiritualty, secular, the great unwashed, mass