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Definition of Laywomen
1. laywoman [n] - See also: laywoman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laywomen
Literary usage of Laywomen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the Protestant by Episcopal Church (1888)
"There are laymen and laywomen of this Diocese who could readily contribute this
every year and do a work for the glory of God and the extension of His ..."
2. American Women and the World War by Ida Clyde Gallagher Clarke (1918)
"The problem of organizing those competent to give instruction in the making of
surgical dressings, and using laywomen wherever possible in order not to draw ..."
3. Paraguay on Shannon: The Price of a Political Priesthood ; Remarks on Policy by Frank Hugh O'Donnell (1908)
"It exhibits the pretext on which these Belgian and German nuns were smuggled into
Ireland, and were given the work which Irish laywomen could very soon have ..."
4. Last Days of the Buddha: Mahaparinibbana Sutta by Sister Vajira, Francis Story, Vajirā (1998)
""And again today, Ananda, at the Capala shrine, Mara, the Evil One, approached
me, saying: 'Now, O Lord, bhikkhus and bhikkhunis, laymen and laywomen, ..."