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confraternity|kɒnfrəˈtɜːnɪtɪ|
[ad. F. confraternité (14th c. in Littré) or med.L. confrāternitās: see confrater and fraternity.]
1. 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.
c1475Partenay Prol. 39 He was of hys confraternite. 1601Holland Pliny II. 553 Numa ordained at Rome a seuenth confraternitie of potters. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 110 The Lord Maior with his confraternity of Aldermen. 1688H. Wharton Enthus. Ch. Rome 87 We may hope to see erected an holy Confraternity of Catholick Chimney-sweepers. 1854Card. Wiseman Fabiola ii. i. 132 Diogenes was the head and director of that confraternity. 1882B. 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.
1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lix. 5 He prays..against the entire confraternity of traitors. 1885M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird II. 17 Unappeasable hatred..against..the whole confraternity of men-milliners.
2. Brotherly union or communion.
1680Morden Geog. Rect., Germany (1685) 127 By vertue of a Conferternity made between those princes in the year 1554. 1769Robertson Chas. V, III. xi. 331 The ancient treaty of confraternity which had long united their families. 1837Fraser's Mag. XVI. 415 [They] admitted the other sect to confraternity. |