Sodality
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A fraternity, a society or association.
"There’d even evolved somehow a kind of sodality or fan club that sat around, read from her books and discussed her Theory."
- 2 people engaged in a particular occupation wordnet
- 3 Companionship.
"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."
- 4 Spiritual communion with a divine being; a fellowship.
"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."
Example
More examples"There’d even evolved somehow a kind of sodality or fan club that sat around, read from her books and discussed her Theory."
Etymology
From the French sodalité or its etymon, the Latin sodālitās, from sodālis (“companion”).
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