"layship" meaning in English

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