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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/) consists of all members who are not part of the clergy, usually including any non-ordained members of...
- 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...
- 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...
- Sam James Laity (born 3 July 1976) is an English football manager who was most recently the head coach of Houston Dash in the American National Women's...
- 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...
- Laity Moor is a hamlet 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of Penryn in Cornwall, England. The name derives from the Cornish "goon lety" meaning "dairy downs"...
- Ben Laity (born 28 November 1983) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who pla**** for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League...
- 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...
- Eloise Frances "Ellie" Laity (born 9 May 1994) is a Welsh international field hockey player, who plays as a midfielder for Wales. Laity plays club hockey in...
- 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...