spiritualty

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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

The king is ruled by a common —— Anne Boleyn, who has made all the spiritualty to be beggared, and the temporalty also.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony

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 Church, R. W. (Richard William)

All Mary's acts in favour of an independent legislation and jurisdiction of the spiritualty were repealed.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

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 Ranke, Leopold von