Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition of being temporal or bounded in time.
- noun Temporal possessions, especially of the Church or clergy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In English law, the state or character of being temporary: opposed to perpetuity.
- noun The laity.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to
perpetuity . - noun obsolete The laity; temporality.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being bounded in time (of being
temporal .)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the worldly possessions of a church
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Examples
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Crucial to the staging of sexual bodies in romantic fiction, temporality is not, however, an unchanging heuristic.
How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision 2006
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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.”
ICFA 2009, When Time is Out of Joint: Alternative Times in Fantasy Panel 2009
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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.”
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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
The Guardian World News Hadley Freeman 2011
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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.
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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.
Brock Cohen: A Promise to the Students of an Uncool Teacher Brock Cohen 2010
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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.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Each is a reflection on the temporality and mortality that are, perhaps, prerequisites for moral reflections.
The Moral Exemplars of Watchmen | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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Eve Club, which is located within the CityCenter complex, is temporality shutting down.
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He controls the time, a little in the manner of the mentally ill, of psychotics who live in an entirely subjective temporality.
Ballardian » ‘Le passé composé de J. G. Ballard’: JGB on Empire of the Sun 2009
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