fraternisation love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun etc. See fraternization, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chiefly UK Alternative spelling of fraternization.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy

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Examples

  • Thanks to the collapse of the Russian armies and "fraternisation," Germany has occupied Riga.

    Mr. Punch's History of the Great War 1900

  • Yet the hope of "fraternisation" has nearly always been in vain.

    Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900

  • How can one fail to understand that this fraternisation, with all its razzle-dazzle, is an insult to everything new the recent insurrections have been able to bring to an Arab world crushed under the yoke--an insult to the youth of Tahrir Square in Cairo, who demonstrated for weeks on end without uttering the shadow of an anti-western, anti-American, or anti-Israeli slogan?

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: "Oh ! The Fools!"* (On a Palestinian Munich) Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

  • "It led to a sense of unconditional loyalty towards the family which excluded any sort of idea of fraternisation with the system."

    Joachim Gauck: the dissident hero who holds the destiny of Germany in his hands 2010

  • [I] t is paradoxical that the general tenor of our current legislation is that we who are advancing into Germany with the intent of punishing the Germans should, in cases of non-fraternisation, punish only our own people.

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

  • The other Kew staff at said training session were the only good thing about it, and I've often wished I'd had a chance to follow through on more of these brief aquaintances - but this venerable place practices some rather arcane operational blocks to fraternisation between departments.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Imogen 2009

  • In the front lines, fraternisation continued all day; though it is by no means universal as many units were unaware of what is going on.

    Christmas 1914 & 2007 2007

  • In the front lines, fraternisation continued all day; though it is by no means universal as many units were unaware of what is going on.

    Archive 2007-12-23 2007

  • This, lets not forget, a man with our Governments ear, suggesting that fraternisation with an enemy who are sending maimed and dead soldiers back to Britain is acceptable.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • This, lets not forget, a man with our Governments ear, suggesting that fraternisation with an enemy who are sending maimed and dead soldiers back to Britain is acceptable.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

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