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

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Etymology

Origin of spiritualty

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

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Example Sentences

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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

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 R. W. (Richard William) Church

The two acts for the pardon of the spiritualty and temporalty were passed concurrently.

From Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

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

The spiritualty were already exasperated by the clipping of their claws in the last session.

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

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

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