Temporal vs Ungodly - What's the difference?
temporal | ungodly | Related terms |
Of or relating to time.
Of limited time; not perpetual.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians iv. 18
Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to (spiritual).
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 166:
Lasting a short time only.
Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.
(chiefly, in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
* Lowell
(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.
Lacking reverence for God; impious.
Sinful, immoral or wicked.
Unreasonable; extreme.
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)- The things which are seen are temporal , but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- 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.
- temporal''' power; '''temporal courts
Derived terms
* extratemporal * metatemporal * temporality * temporallyNoun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
- He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals .
Etymology 2
From .Derived terms
* temporal bone * temporal lobeNoun
(en noun)External links
* * ----ungodly
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Adjective
(en-adj)- We had to start our journey at an ungodly hour.