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brethren

[ UK /bɹˈɛðɹən/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹɛðɹən/ ]
NOUN
  1. (plural) the lay members of a male religious order

How To Use brethren In A Sentence

  • In a statement this week, Somalia's al-Shabaab released these pictures of what it described as a graduation ceremony of its fresh recruits trained and ready to head to Yemen to "assist in jihad, the brethren of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2010
  • ** Ariftotle, "fays Lord Bacon, * 'thought, like the Ottoman princes, cfaat fee cottid not reign fecure, unleis he. deilroyed all his brethren; *' nor was his Hterary ambition more exclufive than exorbitant* The Monthly Review
  • Shy leaves hide under their brethren as the icy chill dives and chases each one like a predator feasting on a school of fish.
  • There was also good opportunity to meet brethren from other churches and to renew fellowship with friends.
  • Doubtless the series will spark a rush of transsexuality-centred reality shows that, given the ready and infinite corruptibility of the form, will lose within a year all vestige of the charm of the original and become as mainstream, dreary and degrading to everyone concerned as its other reality brethren. TV review: My Transsexual Summer; Sorority Girls; and Imagine … Simon and Garfunkel: the Harmony Game
  • Francis was never known in his lifetime as anything higher than _Brother Francis_, and his community he insisted should be called the community of the lesser brethren -- _Fratres Minores_ -- for none could be or should be less than they. The Coming of the Friars
  • It was before the assembled brethren of the Lodge that he exchanged symbolic embraces with Franklin.
  • A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord mong brethren.
  • I am bored by Monkey Wood's blantant over-use of charientism and cacophemism for my darkie brethren - it is an abomination to the Lord - who is ironically my next door neighbour ". TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
  • My dear brethren and sisters, I must still tell you that I have been four times in danger of my life when running in my kaiak, for so often have I been overset when I was quite alone. The Moravians in Labrador
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