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Neighborliness

noun
1.
A disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors.  Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighbourliness.






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"Neighborliness" Quotes from Famous Books



... For you'll have to observe a bit of neighborliness with the estate-owners around here, my ...
— The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature • Various

... half a dozen indentations in the bleak and rugged coast, each a little valley guarded by cliffs on both sides, the natural obstacle to neighborliness that made enemies of the clans. Inhabitants of plains are usually friendly. Mountains ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... thinkin' o' him all day, and one of them Chinamen said he saw him at Sawyer's Crossing. He was a kind of friend o' Pete's wife. That's why I thought yer might find out ef he'd been there." Salomy Jane grew more self-reproachful at her father's self-interest in her "neighborliness." "But that ain't all," continued Mr. Clay. "Thar was tracks over the far pasture that warn't mine. I followed them, and they went round and round the house two or three times, ez ef they mout hev bin prowlin', and then I lost 'em in the woods again. It's just like that sneakin' hound ...
— Stories in Light and Shadow • Bret Harte

... of men." All is deeply earnest, befitting its high spiritual point of view. As a rule the parables use for illustration stories of what might actually happen. Two of the most familiar of the parables follow. What true neighborliness means is the message of ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry



Words linked to "Neighborliness" :   good-neighbourliness, neighbourliness, unneighborliness, neighborly, friendliness, good-neighborliness



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