Found 2 items, similar to Laity.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: laity
laity
n : everyone except the clergy [syn:
temporalty] [ant:
clergy]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Laity
Laity
\La"i*ty\ (l[=a]"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [See
Lay, a.]
1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of
the people not in orders.
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A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal
caste. --Macaulay.
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2. The state of a layman. [Obs.] --Ayliffe.
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3. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or
medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
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