Spiritualty (Noun)
Meaning
Property or income owned by a church.
Classification
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.
Examples
- The archbishop managed the vast amount of spiritualty left in his care after the abbot's retirement.
- Their modest parsonage stood amidst fields that once produced most of the family's income as well as supporting part of the nearby abbey's spiritualty.
- Once separated, only an elite faction that championed divine righteousness guarded closely, fiercely working around vast temples founded since Antiquity centuries: tended churches then fed not his full mind much not not be best far no these grounds spiritualty so were said part.
- Monasteries run centuries worth millions possessed spiritualty that in its heyday one monastery with six priests in an abbey with a full retinue they controlled much more income their day what it was worth made kings and the Vatican take note as so they would never challenge kings but they also did not care about anything but the spiritualty that made the income.
- Though still technically free, some monks lived very well off of the Abbey's spiritualty.