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

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates