fraternityn.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 186 In the virgine, where he [the godhede] nome Oure flesshe and verray man become Of bodely fraternite.

1548 Princess Elizabeth & J. Bale tr. Queen Margaret of Angoulême Godly Medytacyon Christen Sowle f. 28^v O my brother what fraternyte, O my chylde what dylectyon.

1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 40 If sons, we must be brethren to the only-begotten: but being he came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him, he acknowledgeth no fraternity but with such as do the same.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. ii. 12 A Phenician Fable touching the Fraternitie of al men made out of the Earth.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xvi. iii Therfor was the round table founden and the Chyualry hath ben at alle tymes soo by the fraternyte whiche was there that she myght not be ouercomen.

1598 E. Ford Parismus vi. sig. f2 Those outlawes..continued a great fraternitie amongst them.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Bb2 There cannot but bee a fraternitie in learning and illumination, relating to that Paternitie, which is attributed to God. View more context for this quotation

1793 E. Burke Observ. Conduct Minority in Two Lett. Conduct Domestick Parties (1797) §35 To substitute the principles of fraternity in the room of that salutary prejudice called our Country.

1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. 255 It was a treaty of friend~ship, fraternity, and alliance.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 106 Equality and fraternity of governors and governed.

1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B2^v When there is an ample fraternity Royall, and of the Princes of the blood.

1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. D2^v Betweene these two Families, there was..no great correspondency..there was a time, that when both these fraternities being met at Court when there passed a chalenge betweene them.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 188 With [þam] were þe templers, & þer fraternite.

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 12 Ȝif þei maken wyues and oþer wymmen hure sustris bi lettris of fraternite.

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. viii. 179 Þauh þou be founden in Fraternite a-mong þe foure Ordres.

1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 29 Why be ye so hardie to grant by letters of fraternitie to men and women, that they shall have part and merite of all your good deedes?

1513 Will of Robert Fabyan in R. Fabyan New Chrons. Eng. & France (1811) Pref. p. v To the fraternytie of our Lady and seynt Anne, w^tin the said church. xijd.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxvii. 105 Like unto the fraternity of mercy among the Papists, which onely out of charity..do tend those that are sick.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 69 Each Fraternity have their Altars, and Sanctuary.

1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. iv. xxv. 193 In each mitred abbey of the order of St. Benedict, some persons of the fraternity were appointed to register the most considerable events.

1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iv. vii. 603 The first recluses and monks who established religious fraternities in Scotland.

1565 J. Awdely (title) The fraternitie of vacabondes.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 5 Auceps. Why Sir, I pray, of what Fraternity are you, that you are so angry with the poor Otter! Pisc. I am..a Brother of the Angle.

1697 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 4) v. iv. 40 Some ignorant Grooms..think they are able to give Laws to all their Fraternity.

1712 J. Henley Spectator No. 396. ⁋2 The Fraternity of the People called Quakers.

1793 E. Burke Observ. Conduct Minority in Two Lett. Conduct Domestick Parties (1797) §25 The French fraternity in that town.

1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 86/2 Calais is one of those places where the fraternity of couriers have a station.

1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xv. 269 [Henry] was..ardently anxious to resume his place in the fraternity of European sovereigns.

1777 in F. W. Shepardson Phi Beta Kappa (1915) 9 [At the January meeting of 1777..a mode of initiation was reported.] ‘I, A. B. do swear..to prove true, just, and deeply attached to this our growing fraternity.’

1844 in A. P. Jacobs Psi Upsilon Epitome (1884) 180 Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity.

1879 W. R. Baird (title) Baird's Manual of American college fraternities.

1899 A. H. Quinn Pennsylvania Stories 59 He could not help seeing that the Fraternity men were in general the best dressed.

1901 H. D. Sheldon Student Life 224 In general, the fraternities dominate the smaller colleges,..although an occasional revolt on the part of the non-fraternity men sometimes occurs.

1902 J. Corbin Amer. at Oxf. 54 In Balliol there are three debating clubs, and they are of course in some sense rivals. Like the fraternities in an American college, they look over the freshmen each year pretty closely.

1902 J. Corbin Amer. at Oxf. 269 The fraternity houses so widely diffused in America offer almost a counterpart of the halls of the golden age of the mediaeval university.

1905 A. H. Rice Sandy 125 Annette counted her fraternity pins.

1927 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 24 Dec. 19/3 There was heart-breaking rivalry among us to secure fraternity pins from the boys who possessed them.

1967 Punch 13 Sept. 377/3 On my own campus, as at many middle-western universities, the fraternity system had great power and prestige.

1889 F. Galton Nat. Inheritance 234 A Fraternity consists of the brothers of a family, and of the sisters after the qualities of the latter have been transmuted to their Male Equivalents.

1900 K. Pearson Gram. of Sci. (ed. 2) xi. 459 The intensity of parental correlation is about .3 to .5, of grandparental about .15 to .3, and of fraternal about .4 to .6, the latter correlation being somewhat reduced when the ‘fraternity’ consists of members of opposite sexes.