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spiritualty

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NOUN
  1. property or income owned by a church

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  • In form, the Act in Restraint of Appeals was not a fresh piece of legislation but a declaration of the existing law; a flat assertion that any appeal to the jurisdiction of Rome from the English courts brought the appellant under the penalties of praemunire, the "spiritualty" of the country being competent to deal with spiritual cases, and the sovereign recognising no jurisdiction superior to his own. England under the Tudors
  • Hence the stern enforcement of the celibacy of the clergy; hence the struggle against the secularisation of the spiritualty, and specially against simony; hence the monastic discipline of the priests. Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine
  • In form, the Act in Restraint of Appeals was not a fresh piece of legislation but a declaration of the existing law; a flat assertion that any appeal to the jurisdiction of Rome from the English courts brought the appellant under the penalties of praemunire, the "spiritualty" of the country being competent to deal with spiritual cases, and the sovereign recognising no jurisdiction superior to his own. England under the Tudors
  • The spiritualty of Leonard Cohen | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com The spiritualty of Leonard Cohen | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • _The securities_ which the Church had were these: First, that the assembling of the Convocation was obviously necessary for the purposes of taxation; secondly and mainly, that the very solemn and fundamental laws by which the jurisdiction of the See of Rome was cut off, assigned to the spiritualty of the realm the care of matters spiritual, as distinctly and formally as to the temporalty the care of matters temporal; and that it was an understood principle, and (as long as it continued) a regular usage of the Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
  • The two acts for the pardon of the spiritualty and temporalty were passed concurrently. Henry VIII.
  • It held good certainly in theory, and to a great extent in practice, against the temporalty as much as against the spiritualty. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
  • The aims of this new movement were in the first instance a restoration of the old discipline, of true renunciation and piety in the monasteries themselves; but later, first, a subjection of the secular clergy to the regulars, and, secondly, the dominion of the whole spiritualty, as regulated by the monks, over the laity — princes and nations alike. Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine
  • Clugny and its monks had exclusively devoted themselves to the reform of the spiritualty. Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine
  • There be of them diverse personages of good haviour (_sic_): and it is said amongst the same, that after they have delivered their confession to the King, that the spiritualty of The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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