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

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

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.

female 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  Ars Dict 40.269
( MS: s.xivex ) suplie vostre solorité  SAMPS2 (H2) 20v

[gdw]

See also:

soer1  soereté 
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