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- noun Plural form of
confrere .
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Examples
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Madame Dammauville should have an excellent physician, one who was so high in the estimation of his 'confreres' that, if he did not cure her, it was because she was incurable.
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Although the two 'confreres' had repeated that mediocre pleasantry a hundred times, they laughed at the top of their sonorous voices and succeeded in entirely unnerving the injured man.
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Even those of his 'confreres' who did not seem to esteem him, when alive, suddenly found out that they had experienced a great loss in his demise.
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With a grunt of disapproval or rage the great man of the daily press turned away to exchange bleatings with one of his "confreres".
Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910
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Although the two 'confreres' had repeated that mediocre pleasantry a hundred times, they laughed at the top of their sonorous voices and succeeded in entirely unnerving the injured man.
Cosmopolis — Complete Paul Bourget 1893
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Madame Dammauville should have an excellent physician, one who was so high in the estimation of his 'confreres' that, if he did not cure her, it was because she was incurable.
Conscience — Complete Hector Malot 1868
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Even those of his 'confreres' who did not seem to esteem him, when alive, suddenly found out that they had experienced a great loss in his demise.
An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Complete ��mile Souvestre 1830
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If you ever want to make me talk in a state of forced somnambulism, ask one of your 'confreres' in whom you have confidence to put me to sleep. "
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In a summer which has been full of interesting and occasionally exciting food events (Concern Cancer Benefit, Taste of Beverly Hills, Puck-Lazaroff's Meals on Wheels, Special Olympics 'Pier de Sol, etc.), it is hard to point to one event so unique that I am talking it up to all my confreres ... but this past weekend I did attend such a festival ...
Jay Weston: Food Event at Malibu Ranch Was Different -- It Had Animals as Well as People! Jay Weston 2010
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In this manner our seminarians were enrolled in the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas in Rome and live with Norbertine confreres pursuing the same track.
Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem to Celebrate their Seventh Anniversary 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word confreres
(pl. noun) - Brothers in a religious house, fellows of one society.
--Nathaniel Bailey's Etymological English Dictionary, 1749
January 14, 2018