temporality

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tem=po=ral=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

temporality, n. [L. temporalitas, in LL., possessions of the church: cf. F. temporalité.].

•  The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity.  [1913 Webster]
•  The laity; temporality.  Sir T. More.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Supreme head, . . . under God, of the spirituality and temporality of the same church."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

temporality, n. (pl. -ies)
1 temporariness.
2 (usu. in pl.) a secular possession, esp. the properties and revenues of a religious corporation or an ecclesiastic.

Etymology

ME f. LL temporalitas (as TEMPORAL)

ROGET THESAURUS

temporality

Laity

N laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people, society, temporality, secularization, layman, civilian, parishioner, catechumen, secularist, secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.