sodality

noun
/səʊˈdæl.ɪ.ti/UK/soʊˈdæl.ɪ.ti/US

Etymology

From the French sodalité or its etymon, the Latin sodālitās, from sodālis (“companion”).

  1. derived from sodālitās

Definitions

  1. A fraternity, a society or association.

    • There’d even evolved somehow a kind of sodality or fan club that sat around, read from her books and discussed her Theory.
    • The story is a myth of origins, in this case the story of the origins of a sacred sodality of men in the city of Erech.
  2. Companionship.

    • Those would, he thought, be expatriate writers. He was, of course, one of those himself now, but he was indifferent to the duties and pleasures of sodality.
  3. Spiritual communion with a divine being

    Spiritual communion with a divine being; a fellowship.

    • On the wall of his bedroom hung an illuminated scroll, the certificate of his prefecture in the college of the sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sodality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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