Definition of Confreres

1. Noun. (plural of confrere) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Confreres

1. confrere [n] - See also: confrere

Lexicographical Neighbors of Confreres

confounder
confounders
confoundest
confoundeth
confounding
confounding factor
confounding variable
confoundingly
confounds
confraternal
confraternities
confraternity
confraternization
confraters
confrere
confreres (current term)
confront
confrontal
confrontals
confrontation
confrontation method
confrontational
confrontationally
confrontationism
confrontationist
confrontationists
confrontations
confrontative
confronted
confronter

Literary usage of Confreres

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"HIEROGLYPHIC RECORDS—THE NATIVE BOOKS—AUTHORITIES—DESTRUCTION OF THE NATIVE ARCHIVES BY ZUMARRAGA AND HIS confreres— PICTURE-WRITINGS USED AFTER THE ..."

2. Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England by John Henry Thomas, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale (1836)
"And a master of an hospital may have a writ of right, because the right remaineth in him and his confreres, SfC. And so of (18) other like cases, (19) SfC. ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1878)
"... and asks the co-operation of his confreres in the establishing of his improvement of the same in the treatment of closure of the Eustachian tube. ..."

4. In Viking Land: Norway: Its Peoples, Its Fjords and Its Fjelds by Will Seymour Monroe (1908)
"... Early Scandinavian mythology — Odin and Thor the supreme gods — Resemblance to their Greek confreres — Minor Norse gods — The ancient heathen temple and ..."

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