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layperson

[ UK /lˈe‍ɪpəsən/ ]
[ US /ɫeɪˈpɝsɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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