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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--sodality sodality (so-DAL-i-tee) noun 1. A fellowship or association. 2. In the Roman Catholic Church, a lay society for devotional or charitable purposes. [From Latin sodalitas (fellowship), from sodalis (companion).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "She wrote her last name in black marker on the bottom of the Tupperware she used to bring food to anyone in her building or sodality or family." Maureen Dowd; A Woman Who Found a Way to Write; The New York Times; Jul 24, 2005. This week's theme: miscellaneous words. X-Bonus The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined. -John N. Bahcall, astrophysicist (1935-2005)

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