Algeria has created Islamist terrorism of the 90s to bar the road to the laity Kabyle.
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Laity
Synonyms for "laity" (11 found)
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Translations
15 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- миряни noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
Czech
1 entries- laikové noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
Finnish
1 entries- maallikko noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
French
1 entries- laïcat noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
German
1 entries- Laie noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
Greek
1 entries- αμύητοι noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
Irish
2 entries- an tuath noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
- na tuataí noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
Macedonian
1 entries- мирјани noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
Manx
1 entries- yn theay noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
Māori
1 entries- hunga reimana noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
Polish
1 entries- laikat noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
Russian
1 entries- миря́не noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
Spanish
1 entries- laico noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
Vietnamese
1 entries- giáo dân noun (people of a church who are not ordained)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Tensions grew when the laity questioned the primacy of the clergy in moral decision-making.
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The scandal threatened to vitiate the trust that the laity had long placed in their leaders.
Source: tatoeba (13576675)
The oracle taught that the faith of the laity was the obverse of the gods' hidden despair.
Source: tatoeba (13576682)
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