to keep or save something, especially money, so that you can use it in the future
to not let yourself think about or be influenced by something so that you can achieve an aim
to put something down and to one side because you have finished with it or want to save it until another time
For years my mother laid aside a small amount from every pay cheque.
The text simply means that he laid aside, or put off, those divine aspects that would have kept him from becoming a man.
They agreed to lay aside their differences for the good of their families.
‘What do you want?’ he said, laying aside his book.
lays aside
laying aside
laid aside
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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