Associations to the word «Laity»

Wiktionary

LAITY, noun. People of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.
LAITY, noun. The common man or woman
LAITY, noun. The unlearned, untrained or ignorant as in “The Layman’s Guide to Basket Weaving”

Dictionary definition

LAITY, noun. In Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne