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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraternise.

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Examples

  • She still fraternises with students, especially with the young Russians studying natural science and chemistry, with whom Heidelberg is crowded, and who, astounding the naïve German professors at first by the soundness of their views of things, astound the same professors no less in the sequel by their complete inefficiency and absolute idleness.

    Chapter XXVIII 1917

  • The Russian, we find, -- contrary to our popular ideas, which ever depict him knut in hand, -- almost fraternises with the Asiatics, and in any case treats them with due consideration as if they had a right to live, at least in their own country.

    Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • You now only hear the words of peace and good-will; everybody fraternises with everybody.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 Various 1841

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