freemasonry

From freemason +‎ -ry.

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freemasonry (countable and uncountable, plural freemasonries)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Freemasonry: the institutions, precepts, and rites of the Freemasons.
2. (figuratively) Fellowship and sympathy among a number of people.
3. (figuratively) Strange customs which resemble those of Freemasons.

• “freemasonry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “freemasonry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.