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laity |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal caste. --Macaulay. 2. The state of a layman. [Obs.] --Ayliffe. 3. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: laity n : everyone except the clergy [syn: {temporalty}] [ant: {clergy}]
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