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temporalty

temporalty

9.9
Property and money that a church owns
  • noun
  • /ˈtɛmpərəlti/
  • Archaic
translation icon : temporalidad
  • The bishop managed the temporalty of the diocese with great care.

Examples

  • Much of the monastery's temporalty was confiscated by the crown during the Reformation.

  • The church's temporalty includes several properties.

  • Laymen were often appointed to administer the temporalty belonging to church lands.

  • Many religious institutions manage their temporalities carefully.

  • The church owns several significant estates as part of its temporalty that support its charitable work.

  • After the dissolution of monasteries, many lands and assets that constituted their temporalty were sold off.

  • The management of the church's temporalty ensures that they can fund community outreach programs.

Synonyms

temporality
vstemporalty
  • Archaic
9.9

Land and other things that belong to a church

is the same idea but stresses belonging specifically to a church

Surface Forms

temporalty singular
temporalities plural

Morphology

temporalty = temporal (opaque) = temporal + ty

Although formed from 'temporal' + a nominalizing suffix, the specialized legal sense 'the worldly possessions of a church' is a historically specific meaning not directly predictable from the adjective 'temporal'.

Etymology

Temporalty comes from temporal and the Latin root tempus meaning 'time', and it shares the same root as temporary, which helps you remember it is about things of the world rather than the spirit. So, temporalty is used for a church's 'worldly' property or goods.