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Definition of Laymen
1. layman [n] - See also: layman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laymen
Literary usage of Laymen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Some of the most prominent Catholic laymen in the country, such as the Earls of
Fingall and Kenmare, had acted as Trustees up to the date of the ..."
2. The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French by Guizot (François), William Hazlitt (1875)
"Patronage by laymen of the churches which they founded — 3. ... In the other
system, power belongs to the clergy alone; laymen are strangers to it; ..."
3. Church and State in England & Wales, 1829-1906 by Michael John Fitzgerald McCarthy (1906)
"THE houses of laymen having been tried for sixteen years and found ... In 1903
there was a joint meeting of the convocation clergy and the houses of laymen, ..."
4. History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction by Richard Watson Dixon (1902)
"But no laymen would touch the business. Their design from the Queen downwards
was to drive the bishops to the encounter, themselves to reap the benefits. ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1902)
"13, on behalf of the draft of the bill recommended by the two convocations for
their reform and the organization of houses of laymen in connection with them ..."
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