Temporal vs Ungodly - What's the difference?

Temporal is a related term of ungodly.

As adjectives the difference between temporal and ungodly

is that temporal is of or relating to time or temporal can be of the temples of the head while ungodly is lacking reverence for god; impious.

As a noun temporal

is (chiefly|in the plural) anything temporal or secular; a temporality or temporal can be (skeleton) either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.

temporal

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporalis, from .

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to time.

Of limited time; not perpetual.

* Bible, 2 Corinthians iv. 18

The things which are seen are temporal , but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to (spiritual).

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 166:

Not long before, he had ruefully acknowledged in a letter to his pious mother that most of his appointments to the bench of bishops had been motivated by distinctly temporal impulses.

Lasting a short time only.

Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.

temporal''' power; '''temporal courts

Derived terms

* extratemporal * metatemporal * temporality * temporally

Noun

(en noun)

(chiefly, in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

(Dryden)

* Lowell

He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals .

Etymology 2

From .

Adjective

(en adjective)

of the temples of the head

Derived terms

* temporal bone * temporal lobe

Noun

(en noun)

(skeleton) Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.

Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.

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ungodly

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

Lacking reverence for God; impious.

Sinful, immoral or wicked.

Unreasonable; extreme.

We had to start our journey at an ungodly hour.