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Laity vs Laical - What's the difference?

laity | laical |

As a noun laity

is people of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.

As an adjective laical is

of or pertaining to a layman or laity.

laity

English

Noun

(laities)
  • people of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.
  • the common man or woman
  • the unlearned, untrained or ignorant as in “The Layman’s Guide to Basket Weaving”

    • Related terms

    * * layman

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    laical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Of or pertaining to a layman or laity.
  • * Lowell
    • Laical literature.

    Synonyms

    *lay