Solidarity
- Solidarity
- Solidarity Sol`i*dar"i*ty, n. [F. solidarit['e], fr. solide.
See {Solid}.]
An entire union or consolidation of interests and
responsibilities; fellowship; community.
[1913 Webster]
Solidarity [a word which we owe to the French
Communists], signifies a fellowship in gain and loss,
in honor and dishonor, in victory and defeat, a being,
so to speak, all in the same boat. --Trench.
[1913 Webster]
The solidarity . . . of Breton and Welsh poetry. --M.
Arnold.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
2000.
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