laity

Algeria has created Islamist terrorism of the 90s to bar the road to the laity Kabyle.

Tensions grew when the laity questioned the primacy of the clergy in moral decision-making.

The scandal threatened to vitiate the trust that the laity had long placed in their leaders.

The oracle taught that the faith of the laity was the obverse of the gods' hidden despair.

In medieval times, the laity often visited a confessor before major religious festivals.