confraternity
英 [ˌkɒnfrəˈtɜ:nɪti] 美 [ˌkɑnfrəˈtɜnɪti]

n.

团体，帮会，协会；

变形

复数：confraternities

英英释义

Confraternity

• A confraternity is normally a Roman Catholic or Orthodox organization of lay people created for the purpose of promoting special works of Christian charity or piety, and approved by the Church hierarchy. An archconfraternity is a "franchise"of confraternities, able to establish different groups using the same names and rules, such as the Confraternities of the Cord, Confraternity of the Rosary and others.

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权威例句

Confraternity
Confraternity book of Saint Antony Padovan
Unions and Confraternity with Cluny
English Guild and Confraternity Research: The Records of Early English Drama Project
The Boys of the Archangel Raphael:A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411-1785
Praying by Number: The Confraternity of the Rosary and the English Catholic Community, c. 1580–1700
"By All the Conduct of Their Lives": A Laywomen's Confraternity in New Orleans, 1730-1744
Mariegola (Statute) of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Tenderness and St John the Baptist in the Research Library at Zadar
The Andean Soldiers of Christ. Confraternity organization, the Mass of the Sun and regenerative warfare in rural Potosi (18th-20th c...
A Thousand and More Women: The Register of Women for the Confraternity of Misericordia Maggiore in Bergamo, 1265-1339