laity
People of a church who are not ordained clergy or clericsPeople of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.
» In medieval times, the laity often visited a confessor before major religious festivals.
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3 sensesPeople of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.
Laie
миря́неmirjáne
in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy
The common man or woman.
The unlearned, untrained or ignorant.
Examples
5 sentencesIn medieval times, the laity often visited a confessor before major religious festivals.
Tensions grew when the laity questioned the primacy of the clergy in moral decision-making.
The scandal threatened to vitiate the trust that the laity had long placed in their leaders.
The oracle taught that the faith of the laity was the obverse of the gods' hidden despair.
Algeria has created Islamist terrorism of the 90s to bar the road to the laity Kabyle.
Translations
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Origin
From Anglo-Norman laite, from Latin laitas, from Ancient Greek λαός (laós, “people”).From Anglo-Norman laite, from Latin laitas, from Ancient Greek λαός (laós, “people”).
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Forms
plural: laitiesSynonyms
5 synonyms- in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy:temporalty