[a. F. fraternisation: see FRATERNIZE and -ATION.] The action of fraternizing or uniting as brothers, the state or condition of fraternity, fraternal association.
1792. Hist., in Ann. Reg., 2/2. They violate all treaties, invade all property, level all ranks, and give the kiss of fraternization to negroes.
1827. Hare, Guesses, Ser. I. (1873), 31. The Jacobins, in realizing their system of fraternization, always contrived to be the elder brothers.
1851. L. Mariotti, Italy in 1848, 125. There was a short lull for three days,—something even approaching to a fraternisation of the people with the dreaded foreign soldiery.
transf. 1878. T. Hardy, Return of Native, I. i. The obscurity in the air and the obscurity in the land closed together in a black fraternisation towards which each advanced half-way.
