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- noun Plural form of
half-brother .
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Examples
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Thus Hernando, the second, was legitimate; Gonzalo and Juan were his illegitimate half-brethren, having the same father but a different mother; while Alcántara was a uterine brother to the three illegitimate Pizarros, having the same mother but a different father.
South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890
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World,” and be troubled by such little things as the deaths of a few thousand servants, or even of two of his numerous half-brethren, hard at least on a day like this when he had seen his desire over his enemies.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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