consorority

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
   • Women’s exclusion from the collective flagellation characteristic of battuti groups was based on more than just the shame of exposing their bodies or mixing male and female flagellants, since it continued through the period when those bearing the cords wore robes and hoods which obliterated their...1990, Nicholas Terpstra, “Women in the Brotherhood: Gender, Class, and Politics in Renaissance Bolognese Confraternities”, in Renaissance and Reformation, volume XIV, new series / XXVI, old series...