1400-1500Medieval Latinfraternalis, from Latinfrater ‘brother’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
The fraternal spirit seems to be declining in relations between our churches.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Identical twins, clearly, are far more concordant in general than are fraternal twins.
Little fraternal love existed between these two clandestine arms of government.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►fraternal association/organization/society
1showing a special friendliness to other people because you share interests or ideas with them: fraternal solidarity amongst union membersfraternal association/organization/society2relating to brothers: fraternal loyalty—fraternally adverb