sodality

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Therefore, the united prayers of a congregation, sodality or family, and, above all, the public prayers of the whole Church, have great influence with God.

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  1. noun A society or an association, especially a devotional or charitable society for the laity in the Roman Catholic Church.
  2. noun Fellowship.

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  • The shifting ad hoc social groupings, in which Fat participates, function as does the sodality at Blithedale, always conceiving itself as enlightened and pure and under siege by the surrounding deviltry. —  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
  • Therefore, the united prayers of a congregation, sodality or family, and, above all, the public prayers of the whole Church, have great influence with God. —  Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)
  • And at the same time the work of knitting together the peoples and nations of Europe and forming them into a friendly sodality was to go forward without interruption How to promote our interests in the Rhineland," wrote M. Maurice Barrčs,[297] "is a life-and-death question for us. —  The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
  • Not a doubt of it In the middle of the hall the prefect of the college sodality was speaking earnestly, in a soft querulous voice, with a boarder. —  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • Something going on: some sodality. —  Ulysses
 

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  1. French sodalité, from Old French, from Latin sodālitās, fellowship, from sodālis, companion; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French sodalité, from Latin sodalita(t-)s, companionship, friendship, a brotherhood or society, from sodalis, a mate, a fellow, a boon companion.
 

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