Confraternity

Word CONFRATERNITY
Character 13
Hyphenation con fra ter ni ty
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Confraternity"

What do we mean by confraternity?

An association of persons united in a common purpose or profession. noun

A brotherhood; a society or body of men united for some purpose or in some profession; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, a lay brotherhood devoted to some particular religious or charitable service: as (in the middle ages), the confraternity of bridge-builders. The word is now similarly used in the Anglican and Protestant Episcopal churches. Also called sodality. noun

A society or body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood. noun

A group of people with a common interest. noun

A fraternity or brotherhood. noun

A group of people with a common interest.

A religious fraternity or brotherhood.

Brotherly friendship.

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The word "confraternity" in example sentences

To call the confraternity "Lefebvrist" and non-catholic reflects one or other of these positions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Another confraternity was a guild established in 1280 at Bologna, and perhaps elsewhere, which held its meetings in the Carmelite church and from time to time made an offering at a certain altar, but otherwise was entirely independent of the order. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The object of the confraternity is the veneration of the Blessed Virgin in her intimate relation to the Heart of Jesus. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

A confraternity is a society of persons associated for some pious object. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Perhaps the most noteworthy characteristic of the confraternity is the rapidity with which it has spread throughout every portion of the world. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The "voyageurs" form a kind of confraternity in the Canadas, like the arrieros, or carriers of Spain, and, like them, are employed in long internal expeditions of travel and traffic: with this difference, that the arrieros travel by land, the voyageurs by water; the former with mules and horses, the latter with batteaux and canoes. ❋ Unknown (1836)

New Yorker: the scholarly use of statistics, the arcane vocabulary ( "confraternity"), the long list, the lavish use of commas and semicolons. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If it pertains to the bishop to erect the confraternity, then the pastor of a church or the superior of a religious house petitions him for canonical erection, giving the kind of confraternity desired, its title, its patron saint, the church and locality where it is to be erected, its directors, and any deviations from the ordinary rules of the confraternity in question, and asking the consent of the bishop for aggregation to the archconfraternity. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Burschenshaft, since the process of initiation necessarily implies the existence of some kind of thiasos ( 'company,' 'confraternity' or 'troupe') to which the initiate makes application and gains admission in order to share the experience of life-change. " ❋ Marcus Michelsen (2010)

The Vice Dean reported which a Modern Language Association, which outrageous confraternity of educational students of Eng. Lit., reason a event during a annual assembly in late Dec entitled, in classical MLA style, "Epistemology of Crux." ❋ Admin (2009)

A key indicator may be a little noticed bombshell contained in a piece by one of the high priests of the beltway strategic studies confraternity, Athony H. Cordesman Israel as a Strategic Liability? for after all the ritual reassertions of the US-Israel relationship and guarantees camethis: - ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is the altar of the confraternity of the Trinity which was introduced at St. Getreu by the abbot of St. Michael in 1739. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the glass case to the left of the altar is one of the most beautiful rococo Madonnas of Franconia, which was carried in procession by the confraternity of the Rosary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is the altar of the aforementioned confraternity of the Rosary, with the painting showing St. Dominic receiving the Rosary from Our Lady in order to pray for the poor souls. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can scarcely express to you the painful impression that I received, especially since the feeling that they inspired in me is contrary to all our ideas about the confraternity of the human type (genre) and the unique origin of our species. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The confraternity was not going to allow an American upstart—and a female at that—to challenge their traditions without a fight. ❋ KATHLEEN MCGOWAN (2010)

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