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ˌarchconfraˈternity R.C. Ch.
[arch- 1.]
‘A confraternity empowered to aggregate or affiliate other confraternities of the same nature, and to impart to them its indulgences and privileges’ (Cath. Encycl.).
1636R. Mason (title) A Manuell of the Arch-Confraternitie of the Cord of the Passion. 1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2) s.v. Rosary, Such Romanists who are of the Arch-confraternity of the Rosary, instituted by St. Dominick. 1844Dublin Rev. Mar. 11 The wonderful blessings, which have followed in the train of this religious association, have induced his present Holiness to..raise it to the title of an arch-confraternity. 1910Gasquet Order of Visitation ii. 57 The Archconfraternity of the Guard of Honour of the Sacred Heart. |