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Meanings of laymen in English
Usage of laymen in English
1
Some laymen say: it's all those chemicals they're spraying on our food.
2
The reception began with the ecclesiastical commanders and the laymen came afterwards.
3
We must assume trade is more important than hostilities to the laymen.
4
Clergy and laymen practiced various forms of self-denial without becoming actual monks.
5
Therefore neither is it lawful for laymen to kill anyone in self-defense.
6
Now clerics and laymen are alike bound to observe the moral precepts.
7
We professionals sometimes forget how laymen may react to statements like that.
8
There is no difference in the mental processes of physicians and laymen.
9
The term Hospitallers was applied to certain brotherhoods of monks and laymen.
10
Perhaps no, laymen have given the clergy more trouble than the doctors.
11
Besides the government schools there are establishments conducted by clerics and laymen.
12
The list that follows is for laymen as much as for botanists.
13
Ye laymen and worldlings know nothing of its mysteries and its powers.
14
There were many physicians and laymen who denounced her as a fraud.
15
To hear her talk, you'd think we laymen dressed in tissue-paper napkins.
16
They were all laymen save one, a young priest from the Abruzzo.
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Laymen through the time
Laymen across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common