layship en · NOUN
Etymology
From lay + -ship.
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable) laymanship (the condition of being a layman.)
the priest esteems their layships unhallowed and unclean
1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC: