consororities

Noun

consorority (plural consororities)

1. A group of women; a religious sorority or sisterhood.
   • As with the poor who joined the Humiliati, the poor women of Netherlandish towns could find economic security, social stability, and a deep sense of spiritual fulfilment in the urban religious confraternity or consorority of the Beguines.1978, Lester K. Little, Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 133