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laity
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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laity
POS
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Noun
HYPHEN
:
la=i=ty
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun
laity
has 1 sense
laity
(n = noun.group)
temporalty
- in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy;
is a kind of
hoi polloi
,
mass
,
masses
,
multitude
,
people
,
the great unwashed
Antonym:
clergy
Derived form
adjective
lay
1
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CIDE DICTIONARY
laity
,
n.
[See
Lay
,
a.
].
The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders. [
1913 Webster
]
"
A rising up of the
laity
against the sacerdotal caste.
" [
1913 Webster
]
The state of a layman.
Ayliffe.
[
1913 Webster
]
Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it. [
1913 Webster
]
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
laity
, n. (usu. prec. by the; usu. treated as pl.)
1 lay people, as distinct from the clergy.
2 non-professionals.
Etymology
ME f. LAY(2) + -ITY
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laity
Laity
N
laity
, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people, society, temporality, secularization, layman, civilian, parishioner, catechumen, secularist, secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.
Also see definition of "
laity
" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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