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ˌfellow-ˈcreature
[fellow n. 11 a, c.]
A production of the same Creator; now applied only to human beings and (less frequently) animals.
a1648Ld. Herbert Life (1886) 57 All herbs and plants, being our fellow-creatures. 1682Otway Venice Preserved i. i, A..villain: To see the sufferings of my fellow-creatures, And own myself a man. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 51 A good man is friendly to his fellow-creatures, and a lover of mankind. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 61 Virtue would not be virtue, could it be given by one fellow⁓creature to another. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 48 Yon worm, man's fellow-creature. |