noun. The laity; secular persons; secular affairs.

noun. A secular possession: a temporality.

noun. The laity; secular people.

noun. A secular possession; a temporality.

noun. The laity; secular people.

noun. A secular possession; a temporality.

noun. the worldly possessions of a church

noun. in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy

"They pay likewise subsidies with the temporalty, but in such sort that if these pay after four shillings for land, the clergy contribute commonly after six shillings of the pound, so that of a benefice of twenty pounds by the year the incumbent thinketh himself well acquitted if, all ordinary payments being discharged, he may reserve thirteen pounds six shillings eightpence towards his own sustentation or maintenance of his family."

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temporality