Confraternity meaning

kŏn'frə-tûr'nĭ-tē
Fraternal bond; brotherhood.
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A group of men (or, sometimes, men and women) associated for some purpose or in a profession; esp., a religious society, usually of laymen, with a devotional or charitable purpose.
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A group of people with a common interest.
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A fraternity or brotherhood.
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An association of persons united in a common purpose or profession.
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Origin of confraternity

  • Middle English confraternite from Old French from Medieval Latin cōnfrāternitās from cōnfrāter colleague confrere
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle French confraternité
    From Wiktionary

Confraternity Sentence Examples

  • The church also contains a solid silver statue of the archangel Michael, belonging to the confraternity of Neapolitan fishermen.

  • This has been arranged by the confraternity of the Rosary.

  • Concurrently with the claim of Mahommed Ahmed to be the mandi the same title was claimed by, or for, the head of the Senussites, a confraternity powerful in many regions of North Africa.

  • When adjacent burial areas belonged to members of the same Christian confraternity, or by gift or purchase fell into the same hands, communications were opened between the respective cemeteries, which thus spread laterally, and gradually acquired that enormous extent which, " even when their fabulous dimensions are reduced to their right measure, form an immense work."' This could only be executed by a large and powerful Christian community unimpeded by legal enactments or police regulations, " a living witness of its immense development corresponding to the importance of the capital."

  • He had an interview with El Haddad, the sheikh of the Khuans, the religious confraternity of Sidi-Abd-er-Rahman, whose influence was great, and having secured his support in April 1871, Mokrani proclaimed the holy war.

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