Spirituality

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spirituality

noun

  1. A belief in God.
  2. The state, quality, or fact of being spiritual.
  3. A religious belief or manner of pursuing a religious life.

The clergy.

  1. Something, such as property or revenue, that belongs to the church or to a cleric.
  2. Spiritual nature or character; immateriality; incorporeality.
  3. Spiritual tendency or aspirations; freedom from worldliness and from attachment to the things of time and sense; spiritual tone; desire for spiritual good.
  4. The clergy as a whole; the ecclesiastics; the church.
  5. That which belongs to the church or to an ecclesiastic in his official capacity; generally in the plural, and distinguished from temporalities: as, spiritualities of a bishop (those profits and dues which a bishop receives in his ecclesiastical character).