Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Brotherliness.
- noun A fraternity or gild; a brotherhood.
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- noun The state of being
brothers ;brotherhood .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the South Seas such a ceremony binds two men closer together than blood brothership.
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In the South Seas such a ceremony binds two men closer together than blood-brothership.
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In the South Seas such a ceremony binds two men closer together than blood brothership.
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But that man, with whom I welded blood-brothership on the Dead Horse Trail --
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There they exchange names, a South Seas ceremony of blood-brothership.
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Gardiner and Wyandanch underwent a ritual of blood brothership, and Gardiner learned the Montauk tongue.
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Also, there be implanted in my breast a store of love to thee, which biddeth me speak thee fair and obligeth me to solicit thy brothership.
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Feeling another slight seed of guilt for again abusing this brothership of the mongoose-men, Oaxyctl walked into the washroom, calm.
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"We just formed this brothership out there," Willis said.
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His pretensions as to brothership with his prosecutor, and rightful heirship to the Hendon honors and estates, were left contemptuously unnoticed, as being not even worth examination.
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