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  • noun Plural form of laywoman.

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Examples

  • In its early days,the group was composed primarily of nuns, but now its ranks include almost as many 'laywomen' as sisters.

    Archives de la Stan 2005

  • Particularly, I think, one of the reasons why the New York Times ad was so threatening was that you had women in religious communities, who don't normally face issues like birth control or abortion in their own lives, making common cause with 'laywomen' or married couples who do.

    Archives de la Stan 2005

  • To develop the tools of social transformation she convened an activist community of pastors, preachers, biblical exegetes, theologians and theology students, laymen and laywomen to develop tools to guide the Christian churches in an engagement with the pandemic.

    Karen Torjesen: Feminist Theology In The 21st Century Karen Torjesen 2012

  • To develop the tools of social transformation she convened an activist community of pastors, preachers, biblical exegetes, theologians and theology students, laymen and laywomen to develop tools to guide the Christian churches in an engagement with the pandemic.

    Karen Torjesen: Feminist Theology In The 21st Century Karen Torjesen 2012

  • These women also appreciated the educational opportunities that convents afforded them that did not exist for laywomen.

    Todd Green, Ph.D.: Does Islam Really Need A Martin Luther? Ph.D. Todd Green 2011

  • Mammography screening: truth, lies and controversy, from Radcliffe Publishing, spells out the findings of the Nordic Cochrane group for laywomen, rather than for scientists.

    Breast cancer screening cannot be justified, says researcher 2012

  • The posters are a direct challenge to the Bishops and the laywomen who have for years rammed the Novus Ordo and its de-catechizing down the throats of humble, obedient Catholics.

    You report: Promotional Posters for the Traditional Latin Mass 2009

  • Jeff GilesMOVIESThe Angels 'Style Guide "Charlie's Angels" is hawking everything from baby Ts to designer shades -- all to give laywomen that heavenly' 70s style.

    Periscope 2008

  • Some 200 clergymen fell that September, and they were only a small percentage of the 1500 clergy, laymen and laywomen who were massacred in 1792 alone.

    September Massacres de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Some 200 clergymen fell that September, and they were only a small percentage of the 1500 clergy, laymen and laywomen who were massacred in 1792 alone.

    Archive 2008-08-31 de Brantigny........................ 2008

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