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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[See

The laity; secular people.

[Obs.]

Abp. Abbot.

A secular possession; a temporality.

Noun.

The laity; secular people. [Little used.]

Secular possessions. [See Temporalities.]

temporalty ‎(plural temporalties)

(obsolete) The laity; secular people.
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(obsolete) A secular possession; a temporality.