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layman
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layman noun amateur, civilian, laic, nonprofessional, nonspecialist, one who has no specialized training, unnkilled practitioner, untrained person
Associated concepts: lay witness
See also: amateur

LAYMAN, eccl. law. One who is not an ecclesiastic nor a clergyman.



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We see the work the laywomen are doing in the parish; we see the work married people are doing in our faith.
Many of the first 15 residents, comprising four clergy couples, two widows of clergy, and five laywomen, all Congregationalists, were not Grinnellians.
I've explored this tradition primarily through the writings of Day, Maisie Ward, and Caryll Houselander, three laywomen who, despite different attitudes toward pacifism, shared the understanding that war is the consequence of sin.
 
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