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.

References

• “temporalty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.