spiritualty
/spir-i-choo-uhl-tee/US // ˈspɪr ɪ tʃu əl ti //UK // (ˈspɪrɪtjʊəltɪ) //
灵性,精神方面,灵修,精神
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n.名词 noun
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plural spir·it·u·al·ties.
- : Often spiritualties. ecclesiastical property or revenue.
- : the body of ecclesiastics; the clergy.
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Examples
The spiritualty were already exasperated by the clipping of their claws in the last session.
He had studied the question for seven years, and was satisfied that no temporal lord could be head of the spiritualty.
The king is ruled by a common —— Anne Boleyn, who has made all the spiritualty to be beggared, and the temporalty also.
All Mary's acts in favour of an independent legislation and jurisdiction of the spiritualty were repealed.
In the autumn of 1522 Wolsey was compelled to have recourse to a loan from both spiritualty and temporalty.
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