confraternityn.
/kɒnfrəˈtəːnɪti/ 1.
a. A brotherhood; an association of men united for some purpose or in some common profession; a guild; esp. a brotherhood devoted to some particular service religious or charitable.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > a brotherhood
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society > faith > church government > laity > lay associations > confraternity > [noun]
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c1475 Partenay Prol. 39 He was of hys confraternite.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 553 Numa ordained at Rome a seuenth confraternitie of potters.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 110 The Lord Maior with his confraternity of Aldermen.
1688 H. Wharton Enthusiasm Church of Rome 87 We may hope to see erected an holy Confraternity of Catholick Chimney-sweepers.
1854 N. Wiseman Fabiola ii. i. 132 Diogenes was the head and director of that confraternity.
1882 B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. II. xix. 196 First came military; then various confraternities of monks and friars, with lighted tapers, chanting.
b. loosely. Body, fraternity, clan.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun]
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1872 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David III. Ps. lix. 5 He prays..against the entire confraternity of traitors.
1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird II. 17 Unappeasable hatred..against..the whole confraternity of men-milliners.
2. Brotherly union or communion.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun] > brotherly
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1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 127 By vertue of a Conferternity made between those princes in the year 1554.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. xi. 331 The ancient treaty of confraternity which had long united their families.
1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 415 [They] admitted the other sect to confraternity.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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