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单词 confraternity
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confraternity

/kɒnfrəˈtəːnɪti /
noun (plural confraternities)
A brotherhood, especially with a religious or charitable purpose.Furthermore, clergy gave no encouragement to lay organisations such as religious confraternities or voluntary societies....
  • A host of new religious orders and lay confraternities were founded to preach, teach, tend the sick, and care for the poor.
  • Unlike their precursors, these new cycles focused almost exclusively on the founders or ideological leaders of the various religious orders or confraternities.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French confraternite, from medieval Latin confraternitas, from confrater (see confrère).

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