sodalist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sodalist
First recorded in 1785–95; sodal(ity) + -ist
Example Sentences
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Did the question ever present itself—How much of the average sodalist's piety is resting on sentiment and tradition, and how little of it on intellectual conviction?
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He is looked up to by them; he is chosen perhaps as prefect by his fellow sodalists.
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At their meetings; the sodalists in turn had to address their companions, give a little talk about the Blessed Virgin, or on some virtue, or the like.
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