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fraternization|ˌfrætənaɪˈzeɪʃən|
[a. F. fraternisation: see fraternize and -ation.]
a. The action of fraternizing or uniting as brothers, the state or condition of fraternity, fraternal association.
1792Hist. in Ann. Reg. 2 They..give the kiss of fraternization to negroes. 1827Hare Guesses Ser. i. (1873) 31 The Jacobins, in realizing their system of fraternization, always contrived to be the elder brothers. 1851‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848, 125 Something even approaching to a fraternisation of the people with the dreaded foreign soldiery.
transf.1878T. Hardy Ret. Native i. i, The obscurity in the air and the obscurity in the land closed together in a black fraternisation.
b. spec. The cultivation, subject to military discipline, of friendly relations by occupying troops with local inhabitants; relations with local inhabitants that contravene military discipline: used esp. of relations with German women after the war of 1939–45. Also transf.
[1851: see sense a.] 1944New Statesman 7 Oct. 233/1 The administration of occupied Germany..must necessarily be ‘tough’... To judge by his Proclamation No. 1 to the German people, and by his orders forbidding fraternisation, General Eisenhower is going to present his subordinate commanders and staffs with some knotty problems. 1945Ibid. 21 Apr. 252/2 At present it is not clear whether rape [by occupying troops] is a crime to be punished by death, or whether it should be classified as fraternisation, for which the penalty is a fine, or non-fraternisation, which is a laudable act. 1945Spectator 10 Aug. 130/1 ‘Fraternisation’... I write to challenge the implication in ‘Serving Officer's’ letter that to frequent brothels is to ‘be human’. 1946Amer. Speech XXI. 251, I once saw a soldier who had philanthropically sold a prisoner of war a pack of cigarettes for $12 charged with ‘fraternization’. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment vii. 88 The famous order of the day of the G.O.C. Palestine..which..imposed a ban on fraternization with the Jews. 1969Guardian 29 Aug. 1/6 In Olomouc there are still many girls..whose heads have been shaved for too intimate a fraternisation with their Russian brothers. |