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UK
/lˈeɪpəsən/
]
[ US /ɫeɪˈpɝsɪn/ ]
[ US /ɫeɪˈpɝsɪn/ ]
NOUN
- someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
How To Use layperson In A Sentence
- He informed her that it was not permissible that a layperson possess such an important relic.
- There are plenty of herbal books and practicing herbalists that can educate a layperson about contraindications.
- This book is a compromise of sorts: not quite scholarly, yet not quite accessible to the layperson.
- And the supporting studies are more accessible to the intelligent layperson than some reports suggest.
- Nor can recourse to statical analysis of the "average" layperson be of use in determining soundness of an argument, much less the rightness or lawfulness of a decision --- such things are not democratic in nature, any more than the nature of pi. Balkinization
- It focusses on topics so remote from everyday concerns that, from a layperson's perspective, they can seem pointless.
- This central ritualistic moment appealed to all the senses: bells were rung, incense burnt, and candles lit, so that the layperson would see the elevation of the body of Christ, would bow in reverence, and be appropriately prayerful.
- A blow to the nose, sharply given by an experienced pastor during a congregational debate, can put a contentious layperson into a stupor.
- This is a fine introduction to network theorizing for any layperson interested in keeping up with new developments in science.
- Despite its name, there's nothing ‘cool’ about coulrophobia, or ‘fear of clowns’ for the psychiatric layperson.