Definitions for laity

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laity la·i·ty

Spelling: [ley-i-tee]

IPA: /ˈleɪ ɪ ti/

Laity is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in laity (ailty).

Definitions for laity

noun

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

First recorded in 1535-45; lay³ + -ity

Examples for laity

Many ex-members I spoke with felt like financial matters were off limits from the laity.

Not only monks and priests should be allowed to teach, but also the laity.

While they governed the laity, the laity had no power over them.

There were magistrates and courts of law for the offences of the laity.

They are the priests of a religion, and can never descend to the charges of the laity.

The laity had no ambition to take upon themselves the burdens of the clergy.

And as for your Latin service, what are we of the laity the better for it?

He is a leading member of the Roman Catholic laity in England.

But there is, I fear, some justification for such a criticism from the laity.

He is still the Great Erastian, the protagonist of laity against clergy.