sodality

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English

Etymology

From the French sodalité or its etymon, the Latin sodālitās, from sodālis (companion).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /səʊˈdæl.ɪ.ti/
  • (US) IPA(key): /soʊˈdæl.ɪ.ti/
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Noun

sodality (plural sodalities)

  1. A fraternity, a society or association.
    • 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.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 183:
      The story is a myth of origins, in this case the story of the origins of a sacred sodality of men in the city of Erech.
  2. 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.
  3. (Christianity) Spiritual communion with a divine being, a fellowship

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