laity

laity is a   Noun

Definition:

[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.

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