TEMPORALITY

temporality. Temporality, Temporals, n. secualr possessions

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Tem′po‐ral″i‐ty (?), n.; pl. Temporalities (#). [[L. temporalitas, in LL., possessions of the church: cf. F. temporalité.]] 1. 1. The state or quality of being temporary; — opposed to perpetuity.
2. 2. The laity; temporality. Sir T. More.
3. 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.