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TEMPORALITY
temporalty, temporality
(noun) the worldly possessions of a church
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
temporality (countable and uncountable, plural temporalities)
The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal.)
Source: Wiktionary
Tem`po*ral"i*ty, n.; pl. Temporalities. Etym: [L. temporalitas, in LL., possessions of the church: cf. F. temporalité.]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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