brotherly love
English
Alternative forms
- sisterly love (among females)
Noun
- Synonym of agape
- A kindly and lenient attitude towards others.
- 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter 15, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC:
- Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.
- 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter XVIII, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
- He always managed to have one or two slaves to whip on Monday morning, so as to start his hands to their work, under the inspiration of a new assurance on Monday, that his preaching about kindness, mercy, brotherly love, and the like, on Sunday, did not interfere with, or prevent him from establishing his authority, by the cowskin.
Translations
kindly and lenient attitude towards others.
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References
- "brotherly love" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
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