freemasonry
noun
secret or tacit brotherhood; fellowship; fundamental bond or rapport.
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Freemasonrynounthe institutions, rites, practices, etc, of Freemasons
freemasonry
American
[free-mey-suhn-ree]
/ ˈfriˌmeɪ sən ri /
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freemasonries
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secret or tacit brotherhood; fellowship; fundamental bond or rapport.
the freemasonry of those who hunger for knowledge.
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(initial capital letter) the principles, practices, and institutions of Freemasons.
Freemasonry
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British
/ ˈfriːˌmeɪsənrɪ /
noun
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the institutions, rites, practices, etc, of Freemasons
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Freemasons collectively
freemasonry
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/ ˈfriːˌmeɪsənrɪ /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of freemasonry
First recorded in 1400–50, freemasonry is from the late Middle English word fremasonry. See Freemason, -ry
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Temptingly, he explained that “the theater, behind the scenes, has an emotional freemasonry of its own, certainly franker and arguably wholesomer than the stiffness of suburban society outside.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
A retired prosecutor who chased him for years blames unspecified freemasonry circles.
From Reuters ● Jan. 18, 2023
Now research from the University of Edinburgh has revealed the origins of the Hogmanay tradition are connected to freemasonry.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2021
Start digging into the history of freemasonry and you discover that Ellington was just one of many renowned African-American musicians to be inducted into its mysterious world.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2014
I had been thrown up out of the freemasonry of the preliminary struggle into a kind of backwater of established second-rateness, where there were also second-rate manners and morals and social perceptions.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
Grand secretary of UGLE, Adrian Marsh, said the organisation would intensify efforts to explain modern Freemasonry and its community value.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
He became the Babcock family’s coachman and quickly gained respect in the Greater San Diego area, founding a Prince Hall Freemasonry lodge in San Diego for Black middle-class men to congregate and discuss civil rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
They were social clubs with similarities to Freemasonry.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
The group says it has 180,000 male members, with two parallel female lodges in England having another 5,000 members, and estimates global Freemasonry membership at around six million.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2023
At the oral argument months earlier, I'd been hopeful as I walked into the imposing Alabama Judicial Building and stood in the grand appellate courtroom that was formerly a Scottish Rite Freemasonry temple.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Besides, the gun, fishing-rod, boat, and horse constitute, among all who use them, secret freemasonries.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
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