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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Laity \La"i*ty\ (l[=a]"[i^]*t[y^]), noun [See {Lay}, adjective]
1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal caste. --Macaulay.
2. The state of a layman. [Obs.] --Ayliffe.
3. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
laity
noun: everyone except the clergy [syn: {temporalty}] [ant: {clergy}]
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