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confraternity

noun

Etymology

From Middle French confraternité.

  1. derived from confraternité

Definitions

  1. A group with a common interest.

    • 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 […]

  2. A religious fraternity or brotherhood.

  3. Brotherly friendship.

    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA