Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The condition of being temporal or bounded in time.
- n. Temporal possessions, especially of the Church or clergy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In English law, the state or character of being temporary: opposed to perpetuity.
- n. The laity.
- n. A secular possession; specifically (in the plural), property and revenues of a religious corporation or an ecclesiastic, held for religious uses: contradistinguished from spiritualities, or matters of which the civil courts have no jurisdiction.
Wiktionary
- n. The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal.)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to
perpetuity . - n. obsolete The laity; temporality.
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the worldly possessions of a church
Examples
“Crucial to the staging of sexual bodies in romantic fiction, temporality is not, however, an unchanging heuristic.”
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“Guy Gavriel Kay shifted to the idea of temporality of the book artifact by commenting on what he called “the hunger for the classic.””
“A "pop-up shop": this increasingly ubiquitous and, ergo, increasingly annoying trend suggests in its name temporality, spontaneity, coolness, a fun little shopping excursion that”
“A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration.”
“Eve Club, which is located within the CityCenter complex, is temporality shutting down.”
“He controls the time, a little in the manner of the mentally ill, of psychotics who live in an entirely subjective temporality.”
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“Its liturgy should and must represent an exit from temporality and political issues and enter touch elements of eternity: this is where all its art and furnishings and music must point.”
“They're not entirely wrong, but my goal is to make it less inane, to give them ample opportunities to accumulate knowledge that endures beyond these doors of what they perceive as hollow temporality -- in essence, to enable them to see that their futures are happening right now.”
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“Each is a reflection on the temporality and mortality that are, perhaps, prerequisites for moral reflections.”
“My brother is right when he warns that tattoos can be an all-too expressive expression of the limits of our mortality, but he is also right when he says that temporality is a bitch, so I applaud the fearlessness of allowing another to leave his or her mark on you.”
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