Definition of "temporalty" in English

noun

1. (obsolete) The laity; secular people.

   • 1606-1609, Robert Abbot, A Defence of the Reformed Catholic of Mr. William Perkins 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.

2. (obsolete) A secular possession; a temporality.