Definitions for laityˈleɪ ɪ ti

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

la•i•tyˈleɪ ɪ ti(n.)

  1. the body of religious worshipers, as distinguished from the clergy.

  2. the people outside of a particular profession, as distinguished from those belonging to it.

Origin of laity:

1535–45; lay3+ -ity

Princeton's WordNet

  1. laity, temporalty(noun)

    in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy

Wiktionary

  1. laity(Noun)

    people of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.

  2. laity(Noun)

    the common man or woman

  3. laity(Noun)

    the unlearned, untrained or ignorant as in u201CThe Laymanu2019s Guide to Basket Weavingu201D

  4. Origin: From laitas, from λαός

Webster Dictionary

  1. Laity(adj)

    the people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders

  2. Laity(adj)

    the state of a layman

  3. Laity(adj)

    those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it


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