[n. of action f. assumed vb. *confraternize: cf. confraternity, etc., and fraternize.] Fraternization together, recognition of each other as brethren.

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1840.  Fraser’s Mag., XXI. 159. This is a very striking confraternisation.

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1860.  T. L. Holt, John Horsleydown, 55. Too late to secure his confraternisation.

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