This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for laity

a-z
Noun
  1. See also:

    laymen

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • In distinction to the "clergy" we find the "laity" (Gr.

  • This was a popular work intended for the laity; but there are others strictly professional.

  • permitted the clergy to make voluntary contributions to the king when there was urgent necessity, and the resources of the laity had proved inadequate.

  • The clergy and laity of a diocese together elected their bishop, as they had done before; but no one could become a bishop against the will of the king, and the confirmation of their choice rested with him.

  • a " Court of High Commission " with jurisdiction over laity and clergy, based on i Eliz.

More sentences →

Words near laity in the Thesaurus