Another word for layman

layman Synonyms

layman

One who does not make religion a profession
secular, one of the laity, laic, catechumen, neophyte, proselyte, convert, parishioner, communicant, believer, one of the people, one of the flock, congregation; see also follower, member 1.
Antonyms priest*, ecclesiastic, cleric.
One who is not versed in a subject
nonprofessional, novice, dilettante; see amateur, recruit.

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Abbot, though a layman, received the degree of S.
No heathen may tread the outer court.
Why the layman was forbidden a mixture of wool and linen (sha'atnez, Deut.
The king's son Louis, a layman of twenty-one, was made archbishop of Lyons.
He further tells us that in the ninth year of his reign he formally joined the Buddhist community as a layman, in the eleventh year he became a member of the order, and in the thirteenth he "set out for the Great Wisdom" (the Sambodhi), which is the Buddhist technical term for entering upon the well-known, eightfold path to Nirvana.

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