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Definition: Laity |
LaityNoun1. Everyone except the clergy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "laity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonym: LaitySynonym: temporalty (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: clergy (n). (additional references) |
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See also: Laicization
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Laity."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Laity | Noun: laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people; society. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Laity |
| English words defined with "laity": Borrel ♦ Civil state, clergy, Communion in one kind ♦ Laical. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "laity": Gargantua ♦ Lay Figures, lay person ♦ Oracle of the Holy Bottle, Bacbuc ♦ PRIEST-CRAFT. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Levity and Laity (1922) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
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| Author | Quotation |
Gratian | Paintings are the Bible of the laity. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Laity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.37% of the time. "Laity" is used about 245 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.37% | 241 | 19,264 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.63% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 245 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "laity" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Laity | Last name | 100 | 71,012 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "laity": clergy-laity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
laity lodge | 18 |
laity | 15 |
david laity | 6 |
dominican laity | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "laity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | laikët, popull (crowd, demos, folk, nation, people, populace, population, public, race). (various references) | |
Arabic | علماني (laic, lay, layman, secular, temporal, worldly), دنيوي (earthly, material, materialistic, mundane, secular, temporal, terrestrial, worldly). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | светски лица, неспециалисти, непрофесионалисти, миряни (temporalty). (various references) | |
Czech | stav svìtský. (various references) | |
Farsi | مردم غیرروحانی , ناشی (Awkward, Gauche, Ill, Jackleg, Maladroit, Muff, Rube, Unperfect), غیرفنی وغیرعلمی , عوام (Community, Popular). (various references) | |
Finnish | maallikot (the laity). (various references) | |
French | laïcs, profanes. (various references) | |
German | Laie (layman, layperson). (various references) | |
Greek | λαϊκοί, αμύητοι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | זרות (anomaly, foreignness, peculiarity, strangeness), ""יוטות (boorishness, commonness, foolishness, ignorance, vulgarity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | laikusok, világiak. (various references) | |
Italian | laicato. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 平信' (layman), 信' (adherent, believer, follower, layman). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し"と (adherent, believer, follower, layman), ひらし"と (layman), へいし"と (layman). (various references) | |
Manx | theay (common people, general public, hoi polloi, layman, peasantry, plebs, populace, subject). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aitylay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | proprietário de terras (landing, landlord, landrail). (various references) | |
Romanian | laici, profani, nespecialişti. (various references) | |
Russian | миряне, профаны. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | laici, neupućeni ljudi. (various references) | |
Spanish | laicado. (various references) | |
Swedish | lekmännen. (various references) | |
Thai | คนทั้งหม" (ที่ไม่ใช่พระ). (various references) | |
Turkish | rahip sınıfından olmayanlar, meslekten olmayanlar. (various references) | |
Ukranian | непрофесіонали, миряни. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | những người thế tục, những người không theo giáo hội những người không cùng ng nh nghề tính chất l người thế tục. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | populus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Laity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aity, Alatyr, alty, Blawith, gaity, haity, ility, Kafity, laat, laatu, Labit, laeti, laicy, laidy, laiety, laint, lairt, lairy, laite, laiy, lasty, lateyn, lati, laut, lavity, Laydy, layetie, layety, layity, layt, layty, leety, leity, lety, leutry, liaity, liat, liate, liaty, liti, Lituya, lity, liuti, louty, Lowith, Luit, waity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "laity" (pronounced lā"utē) |
| 4 | -ā" u t ē | heterogeneity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-t-y" | |
-1 letter: alit, lati, tail, tali. | |
-2 letters: ail, ait, alt, lat, lay, lit, til. | |
-3 letters: ai, al, at, ay, it, la, li, ta, ti, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-t-y" | |
+1 letter: aliyot, artily, daylit, laxity, litany. | |
+2 letters: ability, agility, aliyoth, anality, anility, anticly, cattily, clarity, dactyli, duality, faintly, falsity, fattily, frailty, hastily, hyalite, inaptly, irately, laithly, meatily, nastily, nattily, orality, ovality, platypi, ptyalin, quality, reality, riantly, saintly, saltily, stagily, staidly, tacitly, tackily, tardily, tastily, tattily, tawnily, tearily, tidally, trysail, typical, vilayet, vitally. | |
+3 letters: acetylic, actively, adroitly, alacrity, algidity, almighty, analytic, antilogy, atypical, axiality, banality, biacetyl, binately, calamity, chattily, clayiest, coitally, craftily, dactylic, daintily, datively, daylight, diacetyl, dialytic, didactyl, dilatory, distally, draftily, earthily, equality, facility, fatality, faultily, fayalite, finality, heartily, hilarity, hyalites, ideality, idolatry, innately, interlay, jauntily, jovialty, lability, lanosity, latinity, legality, limitary, literacy, literary, locality, loyalist, military, modality, molality, molarity, morality, mystical, mythical, nasality, natality, natively, nodality, paltrily, patchily, penality, pitiably, playlist, playsuit, playtime, pliantly, polarity, ponytail, ptyalins, ptyalism, quaintly, rallyist, regality, ritually, royalist, rurality, salacity, salinity, satiably, scantily, sodality, solitary, stalkily, staysail, steadily, steamily, straitly, suitably, sweatily, sylvatic, takingly, taleysim, tallying, tangibly, tawdrily, taxingly, tiltyard, titulary, tonality, totality, trashily, tribally, trysails, ultimacy, vagility, validity, venality, vilayets, vitality, vocality, waterily, willyart, wrathily, yeastily. | |
+4 letters: acclivity, actuality, acylating, acylation, admiralty, aetiology, aliteracy, allotypic, altimetry, amatively, amorality, analytics, anciently, animality, animately, ankylotic, antically, arability, artillery, atonality, autolysis, autolytic, bestially, biacetyls, breathily, brutality, callosity, capitally, carnality, catalysis, catalytic, causality, certainly, chirality, coevality, cymbalist, dactylics, daylights, defiantly, diacetyls, dialysate, dialyzate, dietarily, digitally, dilatancy, distantly, equitably, estimably, ethically, eucalypti, extrality, fayalites, feudality, formality, fragility, frugality, garrulity, geniality, genitally, gracility, gratingly, habitably, hairstyle, haltingly, haughtily, healthily, immutably, inability, inexactly, initially, instantly, interlays, interplay, irreality, irritably, isohyetal, joviality, labyrinth, lastingly, lathyrism, lethality, liability, libratory, lineality, linearity, literally, loquacity, loyalists, loyalties, lymphatic, lytically, malignity, maritally, martially, mediately, mentality, militancy, mortality, multiyear, mutuality, naughtily, normality, ontically, optically, optimally, outlaying, painterly, palmistry, paralytic, partially, patiently, philately, pinnately, piquantly, pivotally, placidity, planarity, plasticky, platyfish, playlists, playsuits, plaything, playtimes, plurality, polyanthi, ponytails, pratingly, primality, privately, ptyalisms, radiantly, radiately, rallyists, rantingly, rascality, reliantly, royalists, royalties, saliently, salubrity, sapiently, seriately, sexuality, sociality, spatially, specialty, stability, starchily, staysails, stoically, suability, sylvanite, syncytial, systaltic, tactilely, tactility, teasingly, telically, thinkably, throatily, thylacine, thylakoid, thyroidal, tiltyards, titularly, tonically, topically, trivially, typically, unclarity, unitarily, unreality, untypical, usability, valiantly, veritably, viability, vibrantly, virtually, vulgarity, wealthily, wyliecoat. | |
+5 letters: ablatively, abortively, accidently, acetylenic, actability, actionably, acylations, adaptively, additively, admittedly, adoptively, affability, agitatedly, alimentary, alkalinity, alkylating, alkylation, allotypies, amiability, amylolytic, analytical, angularity, animatedly, anteriorly, antifamily, anxiolytic, appositely, aquilinity, arctically, arterially, articulacy, asexuality, atomically, atypically, audibility, auditorily, autolysing, autolyzing, bestiality, bimodality, bipedality, bipolarity, botryoidal, butylating, butylation, capability, capitulary, captiously, catalyzing, cautiously, centrality, charitably, coequality, comicality, compatibly, contrarily, cordiality, cortically, creatively, creditably, critically, crystalize, curability, curatively, cutability, cymbalists, dauntingly, daylighted, delicately, depilatory, detailedly, dialysates, dialyzates, digitately, dilatorily, disability, disloyalty, disputably, dominantly, durability, dyeability, dysplastic, elasticity, emetically, epistolary, equability, erotically, ethicality, ethnically, ethylating, exactingly, exotically, factiously, factuality, faithfully, flaccidity, flippantly, friability, fritillary, frontality, galleryite, generality, gloatingly, gothically, gyrational, habitually, hairstyles, halophytic, hauntingly, hectically, heliolatry, hesitantly, hospitably, hysterical, iconolatry, ignorantly, illatively, illegality, illiteracy, immanently, immaturely, immorality, immortally, impartibly, inactively, inchoately, inequality, inertially, inevitably, inimitably, insatiably, insularity, intangibly, integrally, interlayer, internally, interplays, intimately, invalidity, jocularity, jubilantly, labyrinths, laryngitic, laryngitis, lathyrisms, lathyritic, lectionary, legitimacy, lexicality, liberality, likability, literality, literarily, literately, livability, logicality, lovability, lymphatics, manifestly, materially, metrically, militantly, militarily, mistakenly, modularity, monetarily, movability, multilayer, multiparty, musicality, mutability, myelinated, mystically, mythically, nationally, nautically, negatively, neutrality, nontypical, notability, notarially, noticeably, notionally, nuptiality, nyctalopia, obeisantly, obligately, obligatory, optatively, optimality, optionally, orientally, osmolality, osmolarity, outplaying, palatially, paralytics, partiality, partisanly, phatically, photically, plasticity, playacting, playthings, playwright, pliability, poetically, poignantly, polyatomic, polygamist, polymathic, ponytailed, popularity, potability, profitably, putatively, radiolytic, rationally, rattlingly, reactively, regularity, relatively, relativity, rhythmical, rotatively, ruminantly, rustically, sagittally, salability, salicylate, salutarily, sanitarily, scathingly, scratchily, secularity, sensuality, sewability, shrievalty, sibilantly, similarity, slantingly, societally, solidarity, solitarily, spatiality, speciality, statically, stealthily, stepfamily, sterically, straightly, stylopodia, sylvanites, synoptical, tactically, tallyhoing, tauntingly, tenability, tenurially, terminably, terminally, thetically, thylacines, thylakoids, topicality, toroidally, tragically, tranquilly, trigonally, triviality, tropically, tunability, typicality, tyrannical, ultimately, unliterary, unmilitary, unmorality, unsteadily, unsuitably, vaultingly, vauntingly, vertically, vigilantly, virtuality, vocatively, volatility, vortically, wyliecoats, yellowtail. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 69 74 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- .. - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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