Solidarity
[,sɒlɪ'dærɪtɪ] or [,sɑlɪ'dærəti]
Definition
(noun.) a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group.
Editor: Vicky--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community.
Edited by Daniel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Modern.] Consolidation (of interests and responsibilities), community (in whatever befalls), close fellowship, joint interest.
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Examples
- It provided the only hope of moral solidarity he could discern in the great welter of narrow views and self-seeking over which he had to rule. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were neither so abundant nor so civilized as the still more widely diffused Greeks, but they had a tradition of greater solidarity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Those were the early days of trade unionism in telegraphy, and the movement will probably never quite die out in the craft which has always shown so much solidarity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Much has been made of the _solidarity of labour_ and its sense of community. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was the kind of masculine solidarity that he himself often practised; now he sickened at their connivance. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The Mingotts had not proclaimed their disapproval aloud: their sense of solidarity was too strong. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The lamentable effect of this split upon the solidarity of Christendom it is impossible to exaggerate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such a vision of the solidarity of life had never before come to Lily. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Protestantism in breaking up the universal church had for a time broken up the idea of a universal human solidarity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And by reason of this solidarity rulers had everywhere to take account of this people as a help, as a source of loans, or as a source of trouble. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Cheryl