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compaternities

compaternities is the plural of compaternity.

Meaning of compaternity

Noun

compaternity (usually uncountable, plural compaternities)

  1. (obsolete, usually) The relationship of a godparent to their godchild.
    • The relation […]of gossipred or compaternity by the cannon law is a spiritual affinity.1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

Questions about compaternities

What is compaternities the plural of?
Compaternities is the plural of compaternity.

Words near compaternities in the dictionary

  1. compassplant
  2. compassplants
  3. compast
  4. compatability
  5. compatable
  6. compaternities
  7. compaternity
  8. compathy
  9. compatibilisation
  10. compatibilise
  11. compatibilised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: compaternities (page history and authors); compaternity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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