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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Temporality \Tem`po*ral"i*ty\, n.; pl {Temporalities}. [L.
temporalitas in LL., possessions of the church: cf F.
temporalit['e].]
1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to
perpetuity.
2. The laity; temporality. [Obs.] --Sir T. More
3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material
interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic
proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and
the like -- chiefly used in the plural.
Supreme head, . . . under God, of the spirituality
and temporality of the same church. --Fuller.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
temporality
n : the worldly possessions of a church [syn: {temporalty}]
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