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Brotherly   /brˈəðərli/   Listen
Brotherly

adjective
1.
Like or characteristic of or befitting a brother.  Synonyms: brotherlike, fraternal.  "Close fraternal ties"  Antonym: sisterly.
adverb
1.
(archaic as adverb) in a brotherly manner.



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"Brotherly" Quotes from Famous Books



... and of hunting; it was odd that his sister should inherit this propensity and not he. He regarded her more kindly for this evidence of race. "You think of getting married?" he said more gently, yet with a certain brotherly doubt that any man could like her enough, even with her money. "Is there any one here ...
— Tales of Trail and Town • Bret Harte
... That brotherly unity which ought to bind professional men of all kinds—isolated as they must be from the general world—was more of a necessity in the past time than in the present; and the artists formed a little ...
— Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places • Frederick William Fairholt
... me; you have saved my life and shown me tenderness and care—aye, brotherly love. Oh," he added earnestly, "pray go now; at once, ...
— Jack Harkaway and his son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece • Bracebridge Hemyng
... the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Federal Government, all the evil passions of men seem to have been aroused. Vituperation and scandal, malice, hatred and ill-will had blotted out from the land all brotherly love, and swept away those characteristics which should distinguish us as ...
— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin
... their labours lay, And ever their quarry would vanish away, Till the sun-dried boys of the Black Tyrone Took a brotherly interest in Boh Da Thone: And, sooth, if pursuit in possession ends, The Boh and his ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling


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