Definition of Laywomen

1. Noun. (plural of laywoman) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Laywomen

1. laywoman [n] - See also: laywoman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laywomen

lays out
lays over
lays siege
lays up
lays waste
layshaft
layshafts
layship
laystall
laystalls
laytime
laytimes
layup
layups
laywoman
laywomen (current term)
lazar
lazar house
lazarenkoite
lazaret
lazarets
lazarette
lazarettes
lazaretto
lazarettos
lazarine leprosy
lazarite
lazars
lazarwort
laze

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, ..."

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