SPIRITUALITY

Spirituality

The term spirituality lacks a definitive definition, although social scientists have defined spirituality as the search for "the sacred," where "the sacred" is broadly defined as that which is set apart from the ordinary and worthy of veneration.

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spirituality

Noun

  1. The quality or state of being spiritual.
    A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality. — South.
    If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality. — Sir Walter Raleigh.
    Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come. — Bickersteth.
  2. Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
  3. Appreciation for religious values.
  4. That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
    During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. — Blackstone.
  5. An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
    Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality. — Fuller.


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