Sentences with 'laymen'
Example sentences and phrases with the word laymen and other words derived from it.
• « The monasteries offered basic literacy education (in Latin) to both laymen and monks themselves, and even some prosperous farmers achieved a basic degree of literacy as a result. »
• « For nearly forty years, the church was a battleground between the two rival popes and their respective followers, and both laymen and monarchs were generally able to go about their business without fear of papal intervention. »
• « The problem for the political stability of the kingdom was that French society had changed enormously since the last meeting of the Estates General. Many of the representatives of the Third Estate considered themselves representatives of France itself, as the vast majority of the population was made up of commoners and laymen. »