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