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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 la·ity /ˈleəti/
 俗人,外行

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 La·i·ty n.
 1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
    A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal caste.   --Macaulay.
 2. The state of a layman. [Obs.]
 3. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 laity
      n : everyone except the clergy [syn: temporalty] [ant: clergy]