The AI-powered English dictionary
plural temporalties
(obsolete) The laity; secular people. quotations
Whereas you alleadge your Catholickely affected in euerie degree not of the Temporalty : only but also of the Clergie, hardly the highest degrees of honour to be expected.
1606-1609, Robert Abbot, A Defence of the Reformed Catholic of Mr. William Perkins
(obsolete) A secular possession; a temporality.