Definition of Laity. Meaning of Laity. Synonyms of Laity

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Definition of Laity

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. 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.

Meaning of Laity from wikipedia

- In religious organizations, the laity (/ˈleɪəti/) — individually a layperson, layman or laywomanconsists of all members who are not part of the clergy...
- Catholic laity are the ordinary members of the Catholic Church who are neither clergy nor recipients of Holy Orders or vowed to life in a religious order...
- of Laity is the lower house in the tricameral General Synod of the Church of England legislature. They are responsible for representing the laity of the...
- Mark F. Laity (born 1955 in Truro, Cornwall, UK) is a NATO spokesman and former BBC correspondent. He gained a BA(hons) and MA from the University of...
- Sam James Laity (born 3 July 1976) is an English football manager who is currently the interim head coach of Angel City FC in the American National Women's...
- The Pontifical Council for the Laity was a pontifical council of the Roman Catholic Curia from 1967 to 2016. It had the responsibility of ****isting the...
- the laity were encouraged to parti****te more in religious activities, thus necessitating a revision of the prayers for uniform use by the laity. The...
- dignity" of the laity, "willingly listen" to them, acknowledge and diligently foster "exalted charisms of the laity", and "entrust to the laity duties in the...
- C****andra Laity is an author and researcher in the field of modernism. In 2015 she is a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Laity completed...
- Brian Laity (20 October 1935 – 22 March 2007) was an English cricketer. Laity was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in...