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noun

Friendship n.

The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. "There is little friendship in the world." "There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." "Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency."

Kindly aid; help; assistance, (Obs.) "Some friendship will it (a hovel) lend you gainst the tempest."

Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence. (Obs.) "Those colors... have a friendship with each other."

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"Friendship" Quotes from Famous Books

... when I used to sit upon her knee and listen to her words, and promise that when I grew old I'd imitate the virtues of my father, and be a comfort to her in her declining years. If my hand," he said, looking at it, "is soiled, my heart is not, and I offer it to you as a pledge of friendship." ...

— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes

... needed to put an end to your troubles and make it unnecessary for you to send your daughter away, why, I would help you to find them, although fifty francs begins to mean something to people like us. But we must consult good sense as well as friendship in everything. If you were saved from want for this winter, you wouldn't be safe from future want, and the longer your daughter postpones taking the step, the harder it will be for you and for her to part. ...

— The Devil's Pool • George Sand

... answer, and a dark frown gathered on the woman's heavy face. You might not guess that they were father and daughter, yet such was the case. But between Sophia Kensky and her father there was neither communion of spirit nor friendship. It was amazing that she should accompany him, as she did, wherever he went, or that he should be content to have her as his companion. The gossips of Kieff had it that neither would trust the other out of sight; and it may be that there was something in this, though a stronger motive might ...

— The Book of All-Power • Edgar Wallace

... Go pay your devoir to friendship and courtesy. I have faithful guardians in the two ...

— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

... called her widowed she sat with her unwidowed heart waiting for him in the old room, in the old way. Surely now he would come? She had given good measure of fondness and duty and friendship—that was only that under another name—to the one who until now had stood between her and her heart's desire, and parting with him, and all the associations that went with him, had surprisingly hurt her. ...

— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Various

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