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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

laity

/ley-i-tee/US // ˈleɪ ɪ ti //UK // (ˈleɪɪtɪ) //

教友,俗人,教友们,教众

Related Words

laymen外行,俗人,外行人,俗家人parish教区,堂区congregation会众,聚会,教众,教会laypeople俗人,外行,非专业人士,外行人laywomen俗妇人,妇产科医生,俗家妇女,俗家女

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the body of religious worshipers, as distinguished from the clergy.
    • : the people outside of a particular profession, as distinguished from those belonging to it: the medical ignorance of the laity.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounbelievers
Synonyms
laymen外行,俗人,外行人,俗家人congregation会众,聚会,教众,教会parish教区,堂区laypeople俗人,外行,非专业人士,外行人laywomen俗妇人,妇产科医生,俗家妇女,俗家女

Examples

  • Many ex-members I spoke with felt like financial matters were off limits from the laity.

  • The nuns were forbidden to visit the laity in Romsey, and other like ordinances were enjoined.

  • The magistrates and the laity insisted that the clergy must bear their share of the common burden.

  • The laity are awaking to the fact that priests are strenuously endeavouring to quench the light of reason in the fogs of faith.

  • This answer would be exhaustive, if it were the fact that the laity made the law for the theologians.

  • Formamint Tablets are widely advertised and extravagantly exploited to the laity in Great Britain.

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