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Laymen vs Clergy - What's the difference?

laymen | clergy |

As nouns the difference between laymen and clergy

is that laymen is plural of lang=en while clergy is body of persons, such as ministers, sheiks, priests and rabbis, who are trained and ordained for religious service.

laymen

English

Noun

(head) plural

    • Anagrams

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    clergy

    English

    Noun

    (clergies)
  • Body of persons, such as ministers, sheiks, priests and rabbis, who are trained and ordained for religious service.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
    Today we brought together clergy from the Wiccan, Christian, New Age and Islamic traditions for an interfaith dialogue.

    Derived terms

    * clergyman

    Related terms

    * cleric * clerical * clerk

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