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Definition of Confraternities
1. confraternity [n] - See also: confraternity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confraternities
Literary usage of Confraternities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Meantime, through confraternities (see below) the devotion spread through German
... The number of confraternities was 1089 in 1765, 6676 in 1865, ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Another feature of the times was the growth of an immense number of novel religious
associations or confraternities. They were not, like the praying circles ..."
3. The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries: The Eighteenth Series of by Thomas Martin Lindsay (1903)
"For the people of Corinth were accustomed to confraternities of all kinds, ...
The organization of these confraternities, as far as the western division of ..."
4. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1902)
"A clearer notion of the nature of these confraternities ... He affiliated five
other confraternities to it. It was devoted to various pious practices and to ..."
5. Inner Rome: Political, Religious, and Social by Clement Moore Butler (1866)
"LAY confraternities. THE Lay confraternities of the Church of Rome are interesting
and ... In every parish there are confraternities, connected with general ..."
6. Assisi of Saint Francis by Robert Goff, James Kerr-Lawson (1908)
"CHAPTER XXI The confraternities and Institutions IT is difficult to imagine how
municipal life could progress in a city so torn by dissensions as was Assisi ..."
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