Temporality

n. [Lat. temporalitas, Pr. temporalitat, Fr. temporalité, Sp. temporalidad.]

1. (Eng. Law.) The state or quality of being temporary;—opposed to perpetuity.
2. The laity; temporality. [Obs.]
3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, revenues of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay-fees, tithes, and the like;—chiefly used in the plural. “Supreme head, . . . under God, of the spirituality and temporality of the same church.” Fuller.