What's the difference between brethren and fraternity?

Brethren


Definition:

  • (n.) pl. of Brother.
  • (pl. ) of Brother
  • (pl. ) of Brother

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Kurds need to support their brethren,” Ali Haidar, the Syrian national reconciliation minister, told the Iraqi-Kurdish news site Rudaw.
  • (2) Though Koum is only in his late 30s and Acton in his early 40s, the men are older than many of their Silicon Valley brethren: Zuckerberg is only 29.
  • (3) Ten out of 10 for me, by the way, although I am a member of the Beardy Brethren so you could argue I have an unfair advantage.
  • (4) The following resolutions were adopted:– "That we, a monster meeting of the Orangemen of Newtownards and of the surrounding districts, recognise, with gratitude, the exertions of our brethren in time past, and declare our unalterable determination to stand or fall by the principles of our Order in defence of Her Majesty the Queen and of the British Constitution.
  • (5) Over the years, the same has not been said of some of his autocratic brethren.
  • (6) The PLO welcomed any help with reconstruction in Gaza, but called on "all Arab brethren to … use their leverage to ensure an end to the division and the policy of creating a separatist entity in the Gaza Strip, as [this] principally serves the Israeli agenda."
  • (7) Chibok is a small and conservative Christian enclave in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria where many parents are involved in translating the Bible into local languages and belong to the Nigerian branch of the Elgin, Illinois-based Church of the Brethren.
  • (8) Good news from you, our brethren,” he reads from a script, sitting flanked by the group’s black flag on one side and an AK47 on the other.
  • (9) We quarrel about just about everything and we’re never as organised as our Scandinavian brethren.
  • (10) Even on the Democratic side, the committed brethren of Obamadale insist that just because she came here first doesn’t mean Clinton has won over a new liberal base.
  • (11) Instead, they hurl themselves to the other side of the spectrum, becoming just as fanatically obsessed with the promotion of democracy, fighting their former extremist brethren – or selling their latest book.
  • (12) Sue Ellen has used a huge divorce settlement from JR to go into (unnamed) party politics, disappointing all of us who nursed a secret hope that she would fulfil her destiny by joining the Quivering Brethren .
  • (13) If any of them are also vigilante members of the terrifying Polish-Wahhabist Alliance (see above) conquering our British cities and, you’d think, slaying their brethren, you can’t really blame them; that is what it takes to put food on the table during George Osborne’s “economic recovery”.
  • (14) On 1 January 1993, the people of what became the Czech Republic were divorced from their brethren in Slovakia (to Havel's real distress, though there was nothing more he could have done to stop the secession).
  • (15) Last weekend Shekau issued an audio message calling on supporters not to be “overwhelmed by people like Donald Trump and the global coalition fighting our brethren in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and everywhere”.
  • (16) In absence of a decent team, nothing seems to unite Americans and draw their attention to the sport like perceived injustice against our 'brave Americans brethren.'
  • (17) Well-meaning Igbo leaders are calling on their brethren to "return home", referring to the attacks as "systematic ethnic cleansing".
  • (18) It was accompanied by an alarming call, as seen by Turkey’s leadership, by the PKK for Turkey’s Kurds to take up arms to help their Syrian brethren.
  • (19) We’ve learned from Scripture – as well as acts of courage from brave men like Gandhi, Dr. King and my dear departed friend Cesar Chavez – that every individual has a moral obligation to our brethren in struggle.
  • (20) The social and cultural origins of the Hutterian Brethren, the most inbred population in North America, are described along with the characteristics that make the group useful for genetic studies.

Fraternity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.
  • (n.) A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.
  • (n.) Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An experiment was conducted to test effects of prenatal and postnatal fraternity size (size of litter in which an individual develops prenatally or is reared postnatally) on ovarian development in mice.
  • (2) The formation of close fraternal relations is of great importance for the personality development of the children as well as of their parents and for the relations arising between brothers and sisters with advancing age.
  • (3) The illegal trade in natural resources is depriving developing economies of billions of dollars in lost revenues and lost development opportunities, while benefiting a relatively small criminal fraternity,” says the UN .
  • (4) The collective critical moo-ing that greets the arrival of each new screen instalment of the Twilight series says more about how out of touch the film-reviewing fraternity is with a certain section of the movie-going audience than it does about the films themselves.
  • (5) To call for liberty, equality or fraternity is a rallying call to arms.
  • (6) Let us always pray for us, one for the other, let us pray for the whole world, so that there may be a great fraternity.
  • (7) We believe correction of alcohol abuse and addiction by college students must focus, at least in part, on social organizations, especially fraternities and sororities.
  • (8) Racism at Harvard: months after protests began, students demand concrete change Read more “Although the fraternities, sororities and final [single-sex] clubs are not formally recognized by the college,” Faust wrote in an open letter to dean Rakesh Khurana , “they play an unmistakable and growing role in student life, in many cases enacting forms of privilege and exclusion at odds with our deepest values.
  • (9) The fraternal twins, i.e., the girl operated upon and her brother, have been followed for 5 years and are without any complaints.
  • (10) In Boston was performed the first successful isograft between identical twins (1954) the first successful allograft between fraternal twins (1959) and the first successful allograft from a cadaveric donor (1962).
  • (11) Meanwhile at the University of Oklahoma - in a state which wants to expunge its racist history from its history classes - video leaked of a fraternity singing racists chants which would have been at home in the film Birth of A Nation (if sound had only been in movies a hundred years ago).
  • (12) His 1895 will said it should go to those promoting "fraternity between nations", the abolition or reduction of standing armies, or the formation and spreading of peace congresses.
  • (13) Several tests related to lipid metabolism were made on the serum and urine of a fraternal twin with FMF during attacks and remission.
  • (14) Rolling Stone is walking back and apologizing for an explosive article it published about rape at the University of Virginia, admitting there “now appear to be discrepancies” in the key story in the article, about a woman who alleges that she was the victim of a calculated gang rape that took place by members of a fraternity at the school.
  • (15) Reasons relating partly to Spain's recent history and partly to the nature of its health system have kept the discipline from attracting the support and collaboration of much of the nation's medical fraternity.
  • (16) Prenatal fraternity size negatively affected average pup weight at birth (P less than .05) but had little subsequent effect on growth or reproduction.
  • (17) Number of sleep spindles and sleep spindle density showed almost concordance between identical twin pairs and one fraternal pair (No.
  • (18) The Russian president continued: "Ukraine is not only our closest neighbour it is our fraternal neighbour.
  • (19) Audio-taped interviews recorded in the Gottesman-Shields schizophrenic twin series (17 pairs of identical twins, 14 pairs of fraternal same-sex twins, and 12 unpaired twins) were rated for level of hedonic capacity.
  • (20) Miliband called for a "fraternal" contest for all candidates who put their names forward.