laity
laity is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 21 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The state of a layman. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
- 2.Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- assembly
- brethren
- catechumen
- civil
- civilian
- congregation
- flock
- fold
- laical
- lay
- layman
- parishioner
- people
- profane
- secular
- secularist
- secularization
- secularize
- society
- temporal
- temporality
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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