[sororité] (s.xiv2)
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[sororité] (s.xiv2)

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[gdw]

[FEW: *12,115a soror; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF:  seror (sorrelitee); DMF: ∅; TLF:  sororité; OED:  sorority n.; MED: ∅; DMLBS: 3139a sororitas]
solorité,  sorrelitee  

The word is possibly a Latinism, only attested in Anglo-Norman in these treatises on formal letter-writing associated with Thomas Sampson, but otherwise not present in Medieval French.

s.

1female kinshipsisterhood, fact of being a sister: 
( s.xiv2; MS: c.1400 ) si un homme mandra a sa soere [...]; il ferra fyn mencione de la salutacione et de la fraternitee ou sorrelitee, s’il ferra salutacione  40.269
( MS: s.xivex ) suplie vostre solorité  (H2) 20v
soer#1  soereté 
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