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freemasonry
[ free-mey-suhn-ree ]
noun
- secret or tacit brotherhood; fellowship; fundamental bond or rapport:
the freemasonry of those who hunger for knowledge.
- (initial capital letter) the principles, practices, and institutions of Freemasons.
freemasonry
1/ ˈfriːˌmeɪsənrɪ /
noun
- natural or tacit sympathy and understanding
Freemasonry
2/ ˈfriːˌmeɪsənrɪ /
noun
- the institutions, rites, practices, etc, of Freemasons
- Freemasons collectively
Word History and Origins
Origin of freemasonry1
Example Sentences
Johnson vows, at the beginning of the novel, to initiate his readers into the “freemasonry of the race.”
Importantly, he makes clear the political and spiritual inclusiveness of Freemasonry, which is one of its greatest strengths.
But there is something to praise: His attitude toward Freemasonry.
In that freemasonry of the wilderness they dispensed with credentials, save those each man carried in his face and in his manner.
Be sure, therefore, that Freemasonry is a veil of the worst species of moral licence.
But such, in brief, is the deep mystery of Gibraltar, such is the Toxicological department of universal Freemasonry.
There is a freemasonry of dawning womanhood which starts into life everywhere.
True, in the accounts given by the Jewish Encyclopædia, the word Freemasonry is not once mentioned.
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