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Laity
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example Sentences
- Yet the congregation is anxious, it claims, to correct its undoubted bias against the laity.
- It has emerged as much bottom-up from laity as top-down from clergy members.
- It is a sorry state of affairs when the media, political leaders, and many in the laity cannot see the wisdom of the teachings.
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Word Origin & History
laity
1540s, "body of people not in religious orders," Anglo-Fr. laite, from lay (adj.).
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