3 July 2018
confraternity
[kon-fruh-tur-ni-tee]
noun, plural confraternities.
1. a lay brotherhood devoted to some purpose, especially to religious or charitable service.
2. a society or organization, especially of men, united for some purpose or in some profession.
Origin of confraternity
late Middle English Medieval Latin Latin
1425-1475; late Middle English confraternite < Medieval Latin confrāternitās, derivative of confrāter (see confrere ), on the model of Latin frāternitās fraternity
Related forms
confraternal, adjective
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Examples from the Web for confraternity
Historical Examples
The privilege of weaving was confined to the confraternity of the guild.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism
John Atkinson Hobson
The men on the left are portraits of members and patrons of the confraternity.
The Venetian School of Painting
Evelyn March Phillipps
Did you ever hitherto find me in the confraternity of the faulty?
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete.
Francois Rabelais
But say not a word of them to the confraternity : nor laugh at me for them thyself.
Clarissa, Volume 4 (of 9)
Samuel Richardson
Then he asked the confraternity to dinner,—more Thackerayano,—and the confraternity came.
Thackeray
Anthony Trollope
To them the confraternity give what is necessary for their daily support.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XIV., 1606-1609
Various
A confraternity in the first case, a hierarchy in the second.
Amiel’s Journal
Henri-Frdric Amiel
Rather his confraternity describe their meetings as “swapping stories,” the flow circulating.
The Lincoln Story Book
Henry L. Williams
Garret had recently appeared once more in Oxford, and was meeting almost daily with the confraternity there.
For the Faith
Evelyn Everett-Green
This well-known black ” confraternity of Prayer and Death” accompanies the funerals of the poor gratuitously.
Rome
Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker
Anagram
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Today’s quote
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation.
– Nelson Mandela
On this day
3 July 1883 – Birth of Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist, who wrote in German. Two of his books (‘The Trial’ and ‘The Castle’) were published posthumously against his wishes. He wrote of a dehumanised world in which he explored paranoia, isolation, fear and bewilderment, from which the term ‘Kafka-esque’ has been coined. Died 3 June 1924.
3 July 1969 – death of Brian Jones. English guitarist for the Rolling Stones. He was 27. Born 28 February 1942.
3 July 1971 – death of Jim Morrison, lead singer and song writer of the Doors. He was 27. Born 8 December 1943.
3 July 1971 – birth of Julian Assange in Townsville, Queensland, former hacker and computer programmer, publisher, journalist and activist. Co-founder of WikiLeaks, a website on which he published classified military and diplomatic documents. The USA has been investigating Assange since 2010 when he published documents leaked by Chelsea Manning. Facing extradition to Sweden in 2012 on charges of sexual assault, Assange sought and obtained asylum by Ecuador. He has been accommodated in the Ecuadorean embassy in London ever since.
3 July 1988 – An Iranian passenger plane carrying 290 civilians, including 66 children, is shot down by the United States Navy. Iran Air flight 665 was over Iranian territorial waters and had not deviated from its usual flight path. The US Navy had fired surface-to-air missiles from the USS Viciennes at the Airbus A300. The US Navy claimed they had mistaken it for an attacking F-14 Tomcat even though the plane had been issuing identification ‘squawks’s on Mode III for civilian aircraft, not on Mode II which was for military aircraft. The US government ‘expressed regret’, but did not apologise. In 1996 the US government paid the Iranian government USD $131.8 million to settle a court case brought in the International Court of Justice. There was also a payout of $61 million following a claim in the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. The crew of the Viciennes were awarded medals for their tour of duty in the Persian Gulf, including the Air Warfare Coordinator receiving the Navy Commendation Medal and the Legion of Merit.
3 July 1999 – death of Mark Sandman, US musician, singer, songwriter. Founder of the alternative rock band, Morphine, which blended heavy bass sounds with blues and jazz. Sandman was described as the most under-rated and skilled bass player of his generation. Sandman collapsed and died on stage during a Morphine concert in Latium, Italy. His death was the result of a heart attack and blamed on heavy smoking, stress and extreme heat, in which the temperature on the night was in excess of 38o Celsius. Born 24 September 1952.