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lay person

noun as in layman

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When the work of highly influential designers is exhibited, it often fails to impress the lay person.

Until that time there is no lay person so well qualified to teach children as their own intelligent fathers and mothers.

The monks must prepare all their food with their own hands, and no lay person, male or female, may enter their houses.

Parsons and squires—Church and State—combined to keep the common lay person in his place.

No ordinary lay person can judge her according to her deserts.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lay person, such as: parishioner, believer, dilettante, follower, member, and neophyte.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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