sodality
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Etymology [edit]
From the French sodalité or its etymon, the Latin sodālitās, from sodālis (“companion”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
sodality (plural sodalities)
- A fraternity, a society or association.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, p. 98:
- 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.
- 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
- There’d even evolved somehow a kind of sodality or fan club that sat around, read from her books and discussed her Theory.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, p. 98:
- Companionship.
- 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside:
- 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.
- 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside:
Translations [edit]
fraternity
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companionship — see companionship
