Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who is not a cleric.
- noun A woman who is a nonprofessional in a given field.
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- noun A woman who is a
layperson , one who has not taken a religious oath (such as becoming anun ). - noun by analogy, a woman who is not a professional in a given field
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Examples
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It’s really interesting — it presents the latest biology research papers in terms a laywoman can understand I’m no scientist, and I can follow it.
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Gertrude Li, for example, a young Chinese laywoman whose experience of persecution is narrated in the fourth chapter of this volume, expresses herself in a letter from February 1952 in language that today we might find somewhat bewildering, if not disturbing: It pleases God to water his harvest with the blood of martyrs.
Atheism 2009
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I went to a Jesuit high school, and I've done the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, so I feel like I have a pretty decent grasp, for a laywoman, on the Jesuit psyche.
Archive 2009-10-01 Kat Howard 2009
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I went to a Jesuit high school, and I've done the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, so I feel like I have a pretty decent grasp, for a laywoman, on the Jesuit psyche.
Brasyl: A Review Kat Howard 2009
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After reading the list of new mortal sins, I wanted to applaud the Catholic Church, of which I am a laywoman and trained academic moral theologian.
Archive 2008-03-01 Debra W. Haffner 2008
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After reading the list of new mortal sins, I wanted to applaud the Catholic Church, of which I am a laywoman and trained academic moral theologian.
What's the Connection?: The New Seven Deadly Sins Debra W. Haffner 2008
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A self-described "laywoman in her late 60s" was moved to "jump out of bed at 2: 30 a.m." to write about her "lifelong love affair with the Scriptures," which had shaped her "positive, passionate convictions about God's view of women."
Mail Call 2007
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And one of our classmates, a Catholic laywoman, was determined to produce a version of the Eucharistic prayer that omitted every mention of body and blood.
Archive 2006-08-01 Susan Palwick 2006
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Able to fuse together both Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist identities, she taught at first as a laywoman and ordained as a bhikkhuni only in 1982 CE.
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The only recourse that the Catholic layman and laywoman has is to withhold financial contributions.
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