Characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy.
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Examples for "laity "
Examples for "laity "
1 It has infected not only the general profession, but also the laity .
2 As a consequence the parsons and monks were hated by the laity .
3 Swedenborg has given us the true signification of ordination by the laity .
4 These regulations applied to the laity as well as to the clergy.
5 How much better the impression on the laity than soaking and rubbing!
1 No secular person , however great, whether king or emperor, would be disgusted at our vestments if they were only cut and fitted to his requirements.
2 How does my life as a secular person differ from the life of a Haredi man (Hebrew for those who tremble (before God)?
3 The order of this silence struck such a reverence even into secular persons that they dreaded breaking it even by pertinent remarks.
4 Now among the Gentiles were some who professed philosophy, and even now some secular persons are known as professors of certain sciences.
5 (10) Whether, other things being equal, a religious sins more grievously by the same kind of sin than a secular person ?
1 Kafando said he remained under house arrest and told French RFI radio: I was not associated with the negotiations at Hotel Laico ...
1 My family knows you, I laik to have you hear de truth.
2 Doan't yo' all git no sich notion laik dat in yo' head.
3 An' I'll be mighty keerful ob it' laik Massa Tom tole me.
4 You know not what love is, Monsieur Reetchie, you never love laik me.
5 He hidin' he know dis nigger eat possum laik a hog.
1 But I charge thee to beware of laic reason and human impulses.
2 The two kings strained every nerve to form laic alliances.
3 He will not dance to the pipe ecclesiastic, sound it who may-Churchman ,Dissenter ,priest , or laic .
4 Why- Ispeak ,ofcourse, in the ignorance of a laic - but , Iask ,whynot fumigate him and cleanse him?
5 I know that the popish impostor-priests go about saying that the Inquisition was never an ecclesiastical tribunal, but a laic .
6 The great movement of thought of the thirteenth century is above all a religious movement, presenting a double character-itis popular and it is laic .
7 Sir, they are laics ; the laity could never incur the same responsibilities as the clergy.
8 There monks and laics are collected in crowds.
9 He was a faithful Laic and an Oblate, and when he finished his course was seventy years of age.
10 Mind, I say, learned laics .
11 He was a Laic and Donate, and his native place was Alsen, a town near Tyel in the parts of Geldria.
12 We are only young once, and you laics must not be too severely impeccable, otherwise what would become of us granters of absolution.
13 He was a devout man and very trusty; a Laic and Resignate that was born at Ralt, and he was nearly seventy-one years old.
14 In the same year, on the day following the Feast of St. James the Apostle, died John Smyt, a Laic and servant of our House.
15 (17) And under the new defensors, whether laic or clerical, the citizens conquered full self-jurisdiction and self-administration for their folkmotes.
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