All 3 Uses of
laity
in
Bleak House
- When a breeze from the country that has lost its way takes fright and makes a blind hurry to rush out again, it flings as much dust in the eyes of Allegory as the law—or Mr. Tulkinghorn, one of its trustiest representatives—may scatter, on occasion, in the eyes of the laity.†
Chpt 22-24
- Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it.†
Chpt 37-39 *
- But not perceiving this quite plainly—only seeing it by halves in a confused way—the laity sometimes suffer in peace and pocket, with a bad grace, and DO grumble very much.†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(laity) a person who is not a particular type of professional -- especially not an ordained minister or priest