temporally

[ tem-per-uh-lee, tem-pruh-lee ]

adverb

1. in a way that relates to or involves time:

   Temperature and salinity are both influential, but their relative importance varies spatially and temporally.

2. in a way that relates to or involves present life or the secular world:

   A dedicated group of former guests supports us spiritually through prayer and temporally through financial assistance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of temporally¹

temporal ¹( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

It travels to the brain and it registers in the temporal lobe.

From Freakonomics

All this reinforces many physicists’ hunch that space-time is not the root level of nature, but instead emerges from some underlying mechanism that is not spatial or temporal.

From Quanta Magazine

The team tested their model by verifying its predictions about activity in the inferior temporal cortex of rhesus macaques.

From Quanta Magazine

Fighting temporal stresses might be a struggle, but the targets we choose are entirely up to us.

From MIT Technology Review

Research suggests seizures in the temporal lobe—the area of your noggin that processes visual memory and spoken language—might trigger ghost sightings.

From Popular-Science

The soil teems with verdure all the year, and they live without solicitude, either temporally or spiritually.

From Project Gutenberg

There is still no ground for a belief in the temporally limited duration of either the red or the blue surface.

From Project Gutenberg

There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things.

From Project Gutenberg

He said: "Blessed are the poor in spirit," referring not to those who are temporally poor.

From Project Gutenberg

Kroeber thinks that their influence was “probably greater temporally than spiritually.”

From Project Gutenberg