temporalities
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]temporalities
- plural of temporality
- the temporal or worldly possessions of the clergy
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 1, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
- The profits of my living, which amounted to but thirty-five pounds a year, I made over to the orphans and widows of the clergy of our diocese; for having a sufficient fortune of my own, I was careless of temporalities, and felt a secret pleasure in doing my duty without reward