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Fraternal

adjective

Of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men.

(of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova. Synonym: biovular.

Like or characteristic of or befitting a brother. Synonyms: brotherlike, brotherly. "Close fraternal ties"

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... by zeal against minor evils. Such men began to debate with their consciences whether the wicked Government might not become more odious than the enemy. There arose, too, as there often arises in war time, a fraternal feeling between men who hated the war and men who reflected how much better they could have if waged ...

— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood

... after the lost sheep of the House of Israel. The place and locality of the Nine Tribes were known to the Jewish nation in the time of Josephus, the historian, for he speaks of them, and gives them a fraternal letter which the House of Judah sent unto the House of Israel. You are to keep in mind that it is after this the Tribes of Israel are to be lost. All prophecies after 700 B.C., up to this, our day, and till about 1882 A.D., that had reference to Israel, plainly mark out the dwelling-place ...

— The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 • Joseph Wild

... Wildcat got fraternal with a languid brunet known as the Spindlin' Spider. The Spider's loose anatomy was draped with a ...

— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley

... truth leaked out—Mat was in trouble, and in such trouble that no fraternal help could avail him. One awful day, a day that turned Tom's hair gray with horror and anguish, he heard that Mat—handsome, brilliant Mat—was in a felon's cell, condemned to penal servitude for a long term of years. In a moment of despair he had forged the ...

— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... neighbourhood, she comes to hear of those refinements in seven generations hence. Shah Soojah saw in youth as many ups and downs as York and Lancaster; but all in the good old honest way of throat-cutting, without any fraternal discord on questions of Habeas corpus; and had he been a luckier man in his long rough-and-tumbles for the Affghan sceptre, so as to have escaped the exile you reproach him with, he would not therefore, by one jot, have been more ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844 • Various

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