Fraternal

Fraternal may refer to:

  • Fraternal organization, an organized society of men associated together in an environment of companionship and brotherhood, dedicated to the intellectual, physical, and social development of its members
  • Fraternal correction, the admonishing of one's neighbor by a private individual with the purpose of reforming or, if possible, preventing the neighbor's sinful indulgence
  • Fraternal party, a political party officially affiliated with another, often larger and/or international, political party or governmental party
  • Fraternal Day, a legal holiday in the state of Alabama in the United States

Famous quotes containing the word fraternal:

    Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
    Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)