What's the difference between fraternal and freemason?

Fraternal


Definition:

  • (a.) Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace.

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.

Freemason


Definition:

  • (n.) One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By 6 May oil was reported as reaching the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana and Freemason Island in the Breton national wildlife refuge .
  • (2) But he and Mozart were both freemasons and, at a time when the movement was regarded by the Archduke as a potentially subversive political threat, sought to create an opera that is about spiritual trial and initiation.
  • (3) According to journalists and investigators who worked with him, Rees exploited his position as a freemason to make links with masonic police officers who illegally sold him information on targets chosen by the News of the World, the Sunday Mirror and the Daily Mirror.
  • (4) One friendly freemason engaged my three-year-old, who was dressed as Dracula, in banter about her outfit, rich coming from a man who moments before was blindfolded in a pair of one-legged trousers, like the singer from Imagination.
  • (5) In May 2010, there appears a bizarre spat with another Wiki contributor, Widefox, over claims that Shapps was a member of the Freemasons.
  • (6) Sadly, the temple and museum were closed that day, as the freemasons were assembled within, deciding the future of the world.
  • (7) Colin Ashford, who makes cufflinks, medals and regalia for Freemasons, in a Victorian workshop, doubted the government's figures on jobs and growth.
  • (8) Last Saturday, I took my children on a tour of the Freemasons’ Hall in Covent Garden.
  • (9) Only now was he throwing in his lot with a US government that detested the idealistic but ramshackle coalition of six parties headed by Dr Salvador Allende, the country doctor and upstanding freemason who was set on introducing elements of social democracy in a country long organised for the benefit of the landowners, industrialists and money men.
  • (10) The Bank's building looks impenetrable and its internal structure reeks of hierarchy, like a Freemason's hall.
  • (11) The US coastguard confirmed for the first time that oil had made its way past protective booms and was surrounding Freemason Island.
  • (12) Interestingly, all the Freemasons I spoke to that weekend were either builders or were in the police service.
  • (13) Bin Laden also owned Bloodlines of the Illuminati, by Fritz Springmeier, an Oregon man who has written extensively about the eponymous semi-historical sect, mind control, Jehovah’s witnesses and Freemasons.
  • (14) But, luckily for my disappointed children, suddenly hundreds of freemasons streamed from the temple into Covent Garden, each dressed in trademark black suit, and carrying a little bag just big enough to hold his apron, his dagger and some Shippam’s fish paste sandwiches from his freemason mum, in case he got hungry while manipulating global events.
  • (15) The father of two has previously declared a membership of the freemasons, although he said in 2009 that he had not been active for many years.
  • (16) Italian-speakers might enjoy Libernazione.it , a website that has an automatic generator of Grillini insults, mostly about banks, subservient media, freemasons and corrupt politicians.
  • (17) Messina Denaro is allegedly shielded by powerful freemasons in the port town of Trapani , near Castelvetrano, where magistrates probing mafia-masonry links last year received anonymous death threats and discovered a listening device in their office.

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