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BROTHERLY LOVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brotherly love mean?
• BROTHERLY LOVE (noun)
The noun BROTHERLY LOVE has 1 sense:
1. a kindly and lenient attitude toward people
Familiarity information: BROTHERLY LOVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A kindly and lenient attitude toward people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
brotherly love; charity
Hypernyms ("brotherly love" is a kind of...):
benevolence (an inclination to do kind or charitable acts)
supernatural virtue; theological virtue (according to Christian ethics: one of the three virtues (faith, hope, and charity) created by God to round out the natural virtues)
Context examples
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.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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