1 a usually small number of persons considered as a unit a consort of doctors attended the case Synonyms of 1 consort array, band, batch, battery, body, boodle, bunch, cluster, clutch, consort, constellation, crop, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, parcel, party, passel Words Related to 1 consort assembly, collective, congregation, gathering, muster, organization; circle, clan, clique, coterie, fellowship, gang, ring, round, set; faction, guild (also gild), order, school, sect; brigade, crew ...
1 American literature (in American literature: Lyric fictionists) 2  relationship to Santa Fe (in Santa Fe (New Mexico, United States))  The University of Adelaide - Death Comes for the Archbishop. Death Comes for the Archbishop, novel by Willa Cather, published in 1927. The novel is based on the lives of Bishop Jean Baptiste LâAmy and his vicar Father Joseph Machebeut and is considered emblematic of the authorâs moral and spiritual concerns.
Joyce Carol Oates' latest book opens in 1999 with a killing: A man who considers himself a soldier of Christ shoots a doctor who performs abortions. Over the next 700-plus pages, we see the consequences of that act ripple through the doctor's family and that of his killer. The novel is called A Book of American Martyrs. Oates, who is outspoken about her liberal politics, spoke with NPR's Ari Shapiro.