Laity

#997. Laity. -- N. laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people; society [U.S.].
• temporality, secularization.
• layman, civilian; parishioner, catechumen; secularist.
• V. secularize.
• Adj. secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.

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