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sororitas

sororitas [CL soror+-itas], (mon.) sisterhood, membership of or affiliation to a monastic community (in quot. also w. ref. to lay membership); b (in gl.). [regina] ingressa capitulum suscepit beneficium fraternitatis sive ~atis cum maxima devocione Wals. HA II app. 363; s1428 comitissa ‥ hujus monasterii ~atem una cum suo filio ‥ devotissime ab abbate et conventu impetravit Chr. S. Alb. 24; 1428 vos in fraternitatem ac ~atem totius nostre professionis recipimus Reg. Whet. II 6; abbas et conventus ‥ animabus Roberti ‥ et Lucie uxoris sue plenam fraternitatem et ~atem ecclesie sue concedentes Flete Westm. 117.  b ~as, A. a systerhede WW.

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