Laity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LAITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the non-clerical membership of a religious faith
• lay people, as distinct from the clergy.
• ordinary people, as distinct from professionals or experts.
• in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy
• non-clergy
ADJECTIVE:
• The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
• The state of a layman.
• Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the nonclerical membership of a religious faith

Words related to LAITY

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How to use LAITY in a sentence

• The Society publish tracts in which the study of the Scriptures is enforced and their denial to the laity by Romanists assailed.
• The Church courts not only had jurisdiction over the whole clerical order, but exercised wide powers even over the laity.
• But meantime the laity had been aroused to expect better things.
• This mainly determined the laity, as well as the government in England, to suppress the monasteries.
• In my conferences with the clergy and earnest laity held in all our large towns it was always this that men spoke of as the greatest stumbling-block in their way.
• He seems to say that it is right for the laity to make an offering of their bodies by burning but not for Bhikshus.
• For Indian monks, this was perhaps sufficient, but the laity craved for some outward form of worship.
• In essentials monastic life is much the same in Burma and Ceylon but the Burmese standard is higher, and any monk known to misconduct himself would be driven out by the laity.
• If it invited the support and alms of the laity, it was at least modest in its demands.
• But the arrangement of the images is subject to much variation and the laity hardly know who are the personages represented.
• The great bulk of the laity had honoured him in his lifetime, and continued to revere his memory.
• A far tighter hold is kept, however, on the Roman Catholic laity in Ireland than in England.
• For this Alvaro Pelayo tells us that the priesthood were accountable, and that, in comparison with them, the laity were holy.
• That was a question every paratimer has to answer, every time he talks paratime to the laity.
• The Shepherd of Hermas also proves that even in the circles of the laity the Roman Church is impressed with the consciousness that she must care for the whole of Christendom.
• The inference is, that his power was equally absolute over the laity.
• But the laity, for the third offence, were only to forfeit their goods and chattels, and be liable to perpetual imprisonment.
• Even the laity of that communion seemed now disposed to retaliate upon their enemies, according to the usual measures of party justice.
• The oppression of the natives was not confined to the laity, but the clergy were often as unjust.
• When the laity wake up and try and help the minister the minister will preach better.
• The Evangelical School has an able defender from the laity, the distinguished scholar and statesman, M.
• At the utmost the laity may tender respectful and humble suggestions for their consideration, but no more.
• Some of them touch on matters concerning the mutual relation of physician and patient, but are meant to interest and instruct the laity rather than the medical attendant.
• When a Catholic people begins to be educated, the priests apparently lose their influence upon the habits of the laity, and a rapid decline in the births at once sets in.
• In a word, there is the double standard of morals, not only of priest and laity, but of man and woman.
• This event occasioned much rejoicing in the hearts of all the people of this city, the laity as well as the religious.

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