spirituality
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French spiritualité, from Late Latin spīrituālitās.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/, [ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.ɾɪ]
Audio (Mid-Atlantic) (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌspɪɹ.ɪ.t͡ʃʉˈæl.ə.tɪ/, [ˌspɪɹ.ɪ.t͡ʃʉˈæl.ə.ɾɪ]
Noun edit
spirituality (countable and uncountable, plural spiritualities)
- The quality or state of being spiritual.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:, "The Ways of Wisdom are Ways of Pleasantness"
- a pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
- If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest unto spirituality.
- 1841, Edward Bickersteth, A Treatise of Prayer:
- Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come.
- Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
- Appreciation for religious values.
- (obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof.
- (obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
- Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality.
Antonyms edit
Translations edit
quality or state of being spiritual
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concern for what is unseen and intangible
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appreciation for religious values
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that which belongs to the church, as distinct from temporalities
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