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Laity vs Laymen - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between laity and laymen

is that laity is people of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics while laymen is plural of lang=en.

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”

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    laymen

    English

    Noun

    (head) plural

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