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▪ I. brotherly, a.|ˈbrʌðəlɪ| Also 6 broderly. [f. brother + -ly1. Cf. OE. bróðorlíc; but no corresponding form is found in ME.] 1. Of or pertaining to a brother; also, characteristic of a brother, fraternal, kind, affectionate.
c1000ælfric Gram. vi. 15 Fraternus, broðorlic. 1535Coverdale Amos i. 9 They..haue not remembred the brotherly couenaunt [Wyclif, boond of bretheren]. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. i. ii. 72 A brotherly league. 1656Jeanes Mixt. Schol. Div. 152 A brotherly Saviour, and Redeemer. 1835Carlyle Misc. (1857) III. 299 The freest, brotherliest, bravest human soul. b. Common in brotherly kindness, brotherly love (sometimes, though unnecessarily, joined by a hyphen).
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 170 Fraternall charite or brotherly loue. 1611Bible 2 Peter i. 7 Adde to godlinesse, brotherly kindnesse. ― Hebr. xiii. 1 Let brotherly loue continue. 1667H. More Div. Dial. v. xlii. (1713) 526 The exercise of..Brotherly-kindness. 1856R. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 199 To displace this pride by brotherly-kindness. †2. Of things: Acting in harmonious conjunction.
1638A. Read Treat. Chirurg. xx. 146 Two brotherly muscles, appoynted for sundry motions of the same part. ▪ II. ˈbrotherly, adv. [f. as prec. + -ly2.] In the manner or spirit of a brother; fraternally.
1526Tindale 1 Peter i. 22 To love brotherly withouten faynynge. 1590H. Barrow in Conferences i. 1 To confer brotherly and christianly with me. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. iii. 38 How should you gouerne any Kingdome, That know not..how to vse your Brothers Brotherly. 1650S. Clarke Eccl. Hist. (1654) I. 237 He exhorted them lovingly and brotherly to lay down their arms. 1805Scott Last Minstr. ii. xx, The man he had loved so brotherly. |