Antonym: ecclesiastic. Similar words: plait, ait, gait, wait, bait, trait, faith, await. Meaning: ['leɪətɪ] 
n. in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy.
n. in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy. 
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1. The Church and the laity were increasingly active in charity work.
2. Clergy and laity alike are divided in their views.
3. The new proposals affect both clergy and laity.
4. Encouraging and enabling the laity to take their proper place in the Church?
5. The clergy had a financial independence which the laity lacked.
6. In 1294-7, it has been calculated, the laity and clergy together yielded ￡280,000 in direct taxes to the king.
7. But the cardinal seemed unaware that the laity was no longer as compliant as it had once been.
8. Before 1950, the laity had little opportunity to make the Exercises, which were typically given during a thirty-day silent retreat.
9. This teaching was a boon to the married laity, but it sowed confusion among priests.
10. Bishops enjoy almost absolute power, and the laity have no means of rejecting a candidate, no matter how unsuitable.
11. All this must have raised in the laity ambivalent feelings.
12. To tell the laity our love.
13. To tell laity our love.
14. LaiTy: Hi , bGkc, I have a qummn for you.
15. Employing to suspect, but also use the suspect; Laity both; Deadhead not; Different people must use.
16. These words do not speak with the Laity, Laity listened to a monk.
17. The clergy joined hands with the laity in maintaining the inherited verse forms.
18. Gregory stirred up riots of the laity against married priests and their wives, in which both often suffered brutal ill-treatment.
19. Comparisons are sometimes made with the growing number of laity who give freely of their time and skills to the Church.
20. The choices they made also illustrate the divisions within the clergy and the gap between Loyalist clergy and revolutionary laity.
21. The 1340-1 crisis, therefore, underlines the connections rather than the divisions between clergy and laity, church and crown.
22. If by the Church you mean the clergy and the laity, the answer is no.
23. Artists and journalists are not so dependent upon their colleagues' approval but can appeal directly to the laity.
24. Camillus then founded the Servants of the Sick, a laity of male nurses.
25. Despite the presence of more than five dozen priests, it was the laity and the celebrants who distributed Communion.
26. But it must be remembered that a priest is different from the laity.
27. Monks, however, do not normally perform sacramental rituals for the laity, and would not normally officiate at baptisms and marriages.
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28. On this last truth are based especially the permissibility and intrinsic propriety of Communion only under one kind for the laity and for priests not celebrating Mass.
29. WE BELIEVE in the priesthood all believers, and the parity of the ministers and the laity.