Confraternity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Confraternity is a noun meaning (countable) A group with a common interest.
Meaning
(countable) A group with a common interest.
More Meanings
- (countable) A religious fraternity or brotherhood.
- (uncountable) Brotherly friendship.
Example Sentences
The great lights of commercial jurisprudence, international confraternity, and biological deviation, of all ages, all civilizations, and all nationalities, from Zoroaster down to Horace Greeley […]
I had seen and done things in the past few days that my entire life had not prepared me for, and I had felt emotions unknown to me: righteous anger, political confraternity and solidarity, deep fear.
The two gravitated together in response to that law of nature which rules that the whole confraternity of politicians prefer to operate within the closed circle of its own initiates, rather than waste time with outsiders […]
First the cell, then combinations of cells, then combinations of combinations, then more and more complex combinations, till the body of man is reached, where endless confraternities of cells, all with different functions, working to build and sustain different organs, […]
Word Forms
- confraternities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rosary, fraternity, brotherhood, confrerie, archconfraternity, fellowship.
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