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brethren::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | religious order, religious sect, sect |
Examples of brethren
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Their workforces also tend to be younger-and cheaper-than their larger brethren.
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This is a piece of scared scripture the Lodge of Bodge brethren devoutly follow.
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This is far more than the majority of his critical brethren have bothered to do.
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Very religious Catholics are more Republican than their less observant brethren.
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By 1572, the Pechenga Monastery counted about 50 brethren and 200 lay followers.
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Indeed in 2008, the small-caps outshone their big-cap brethren by a wide margin.
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Christians in America could learn much from our new brethren in Africa and Asia.
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Stevens has set himself up as a gadfly who persistently challenges his brethren.
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The Pentagon plans to help its new brethren-in-arms establish a chaplains corps.
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- (plural) the lay members of a male religious order
- Brethren is a novel written by Robyn Young set in the ninth and last crusade. It was published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2006. It took her seven years to write the novel where she was "intrigued by the idea of these medieval warrior monks".
- The Brethren is one of several informal names for a nameless religious movement created by Jimmie T. "Jim" Roberts. Other names include the Brothers and Sisters and the garbage eaters, after their reputation for eating food from garbage bins. ...
- The Brethren is a 1979 book by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, which gives a nonfiction look behind the scenes of the United States Supreme Court during Warren Burger's early years as Chief Justice of the United States. ...
- The Brethren is a legal thriller novel by American author John Grisham, published in 2000.
- The body of members, especially of a fraternal, religious or military order
- People closely united or associated
- A plural term for brothers, either as siblings or Christian brothers. "Who is My mother and who are My brothers? And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, Here are My mother and My brothers!" (Matt. 12:48-49).
- (1) All male members of the Church; (2) "The Brethren," a designation of the General Authorities of the Church.
