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

Noun Inflected Forms

• spiritualties
  plural

Etymology

Origin of spiritualty

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

spiritualty spiritualties

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

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 Leopold von Ranke

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 R. W. (Richard William) Church

Charles himself had said that, if Henry had no objects beyond the correction of the spiritualty, he would rather aid than obstruct him.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude

All Mary's acts in favour of an independent legislation and jurisdiction of the spiritualty were repealed.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

I want to delve further into the foundation of drafting and geometric abstraction, talking about these geometric sorts of nodes, guideposts, that brought you through to many beliefs and spiritualties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

During the vacancy of any see in his province, he is guardian of the spiritualties thereof, as the king is of the temporalties; and he executes all ecclesiastical jurisdiction therein.

From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone

First, a flat formality of Spirit without salt or savour in the spiritualties of Christ, as if their Religion began and ended in their Opinion.

From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward