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laywoman

[ley-woom-uhn] / ˈleɪˌwʊm ən /


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María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, known as Mama Antula, was an 18th-Century laywoman who is considered by some to be Argentina's first feminist.

From BBC Feb. 11, 2024

Mama Antula was an 18th century laywoman who ministered to the poor and helped keep Jesuit spirituality alive in Argentina after the religious order — to which the pope belongs — was suppressed.

From Seattle Times Feb. 11, 2024

The program will be directed by Merrill Ware Carrington, a retreat leader and Episcopal laywoman.

From Washington Post Jun. 15, 2013

A Catholic laywoman, Anne Barrett Doyle, who lives in Boston, suggested they should meet.

From New York Times May 21, 2013

But when you speak of man acting as a unit he is a layman, but you never say a laywoman.

From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 by Marietta Holley

Dhammananda contends that Buddha built the religion as a four-legged stool — monks, nuns, laymen and laywomen.

From Seattle Times Dec. 9, 2021

When Gregory arrived, he made Pehle a full-time administrator, as well as, eventually, 12 other nuns and laywomen who were given the title “parish life coordinators.”

From Washington Post Apr. 14, 2019

So, theologically speaking, laypeople, including laywomen, can be cardinals.

From The New Yorker Oct. 28, 2018

In November 1836, Dellile and her friends Juliette Gaudin and Josephine Charles created the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for laywomen of color.

From Washington Times Mar. 25, 2017

Had there been clergywomen, there would have been laywomen.

From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 by Marietta Holley




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