All 3 Uses of
brethren
in
War and Peace
- This silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led Pierre up to the rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and so on.†
Chpt 5
- His new brethren gave him letters to the Kiev and Odessa Masons and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity.†
Chpt 5 *
- The prince was surprised that so simple an idea had not occurred to him, and he applied for advice to the holy brethren of the Society of Jesus, with whom he was on intimate terms.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(brethren) brothers or members of the same group -- especially members of a religious order