All members who are not a part of the clergy.
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!
6 The best brain of the Christian laity should be engaged in this business.
7 Therefore it was said that the images were the Bible of the laity .
8 The Puritanical distinction between clergy and laity had scarcely faded in his mind.
9 I am only pleading for the harmless and the necessary laity .
10 After a while the plays became so popular that the laity presented them.
11 The laity had resumed the ferocious manners of their pagan forefathers.
12 But the offensive spirit of the Portuguese laity was not to be repressed.
13 All professions are conspiracies against the laity , said George Bernard Shaw.
14 The king found his ecclesiastical subjects as compliant as the laity .
15 The synod also passed a vote, prohibiting the laity from wearing long hair.
16 I'd love the laity to have more say in the church.
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