Noah Webster
Fraternity
FRATERN'ITY, noun [Latin fraternitas.]
1. The state or quality of a brother; brotherhood.
2. A body of men associated for their common interest or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; as the fraternity of free masons.
3. Men of the same class, profession, occupation or character.
With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity