spiritualty

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Throughout you become newly aware of themes of rootlessness, isolation, disenfranchisement and — beyond that — an upward-reaching spiritualty in the music of Dylan, and you remember he was indeed a child of the Depression.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2020

It is absurd to assume that the "spiritualty" are the only proper persons to teach doctrine, and then to act as if they were unfit to judge of doctrine.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

Charles himself had said that, if Henry had no objects beyond the correction of the spiritualty, he would rather aid than obstruct him.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.

The king is ruled by a common —— Anne Boleyn, who has made all the spiritualty to be beggared, and the temporalty also.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony

All Mary's acts in favour of an independent legislation and jurisdiction of the spiritualty were repealed.

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von