spirituality

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin spīritālis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Late Latin spīrituālitāsder. Middle French spiritualitéder. English spirituality From Middle French spiritualité, from Late Latin spīrituālitās.

1. The quality or state of being spiritual.

   “, "The Ways of Wisdom are Ways of Pleasantness" a pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality”

   “If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest unto spirituality.”

2. Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.

   “African Indigenous Spirituality”

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.”

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.”