confraternity
noun
a lay brotherhood devoted to some purpose, especially to religious or charitable service.
confraternal
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a word derived from
confraternity.
Example Sentences
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Sign: I entreat you, Bishops will greet you, Clergy beseech you, Lady, to join This league confraternal To seek the eternal— Not the infernal— Basis of truth!
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
