sodality

noun3

1. •
   A fraternity, a society or association.

   • There’d even evolved somehow a kind of sodality or fan club that sat around, read from her books and discussed her Theory. — 1963
2. •
   Companionship.

   • Those would, he thought, be expatriate writers. He was, of course, one of those himself now, but he was indifferent to the duties and pleasures of sodality. — 1968
3. •
   Spiritual communion with a divine being; a fellowship.

   • On the wall of his bedroom hung an illuminated scroll, the certificate of his prefecture in the college of the sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary. — 1916