spiritualty

American  

[spir-i-choo-uhl-tee] / ˈspɪr ɪ tʃu əl ti /

noun

spiritualties plural

1. Often spiritualties. ecclesiastical property or revenue.

2. the body of ecclesiastics; the clergy.

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spiritualty British  

/ ˈspɪrɪtjʊəltɪ /

noun

1. the clergy collectively

2. another word for spirituality

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• spiritualties
  plural

Etymology

Origin of spiritualty

1350–1400; Middle English spiritualte < Middle French < Medieval Latin spīrituālitās; see spirituality

Example Sentences

Throughout you become newly aware of themes of rootlessness, isolation, disenfranchisement and — beyond that — an upward-reaching spiritualty in the music of Dylan, and you remember he was indeed a child of the Depression.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2020

It is absurd to assume that the "spiritualty" are the only proper persons to teach doctrine, and then to act as if they were unfit to judge of doctrine.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

All Mary's acts in favour of an independent legislation and jurisdiction of the spiritualty were repealed.

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von

For the future also the spiritualty were to be bound to appear—in the customary dress—in a manner worthy of God's service, with bent knees and with ceremonious devotion.

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von

It held good certainly in theory, and to a great extent in practice, against the temporalty as much as against the spiritualty.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)