temporally

American  

[tem-per-uh-lee, tem-pruh-lee] / ˈtɛm pər ə li, ˈtɛm prə li /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of temporally

temporal ¹ ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

Instead, the justices together gravitated toward something else entirely: a problem about time, causation, and whether constitutional authority can be temporally partitioned.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2026

Tolkien’s world thus existed in the form of a “massive textual archive,” producing a “sense that the world extends both temporally and physically beyond the text.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

If you’ve hypothetically wondered, “What is time anymore,” it may be both alarming and a relief to know you’re not the only temporally disoriented person out here.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2025

In this way, they obtained spatially and temporally finely resolved locations where vultures fed.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

“Extremely. Something had to be done, so people like myself created places where young peculiars could live apart from common folk—physically and temporally isolated enclaves like this one, of which I am enormously proud.”

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs