laity

laity has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• a.. The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
• a.. The state of a layman.
• a.. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
• n.. in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy