Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bond between two or more persons made sacred by the mingling of their blood: a primitive custom symbolic of the establishment of blood-relationship.
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Examples
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For it was plain as a pikestaff whither he was bound, and if he thought he could come round me with his blood-brotherhood fustian, he was well out of court.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Perhaps he'll get invited to a birthday party for the German ambassador and end up at a sleepover with the envoys from Syria, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, where they'll share their deepest secrets and then end up pledging blood-brotherhood to each other.
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Mel, is there an internet-version of blood-brotherhood?
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He returned the photograph solemnly to its envelope, regarding Lewisham with an air of one who has performed the ceremony of blood-brotherhood.
Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004
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“Dim” is the epithet for Scott-King and it was a fellow-feeling, a blood-brotherhood in dimness, which first drew him to study the works of the poet Bellorius.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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For it was plain as a pikestaff whither he was bound, and if he thought he could come round me with his blood-brotherhood fustian, he was well out of court.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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He had at first sworn blood-brotherhood to the chief of the Girumgi to assure his succession among the Ekinari, if his father died prematurely.
Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995
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For it was plain as a pikestaff whither he was bound, and if he thought he could come round me with his blood-brotherhood fustian, he was well out of court.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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Kaled-a-in did not take in those from outside the Clans lightly or often-and it was usually someone who was about to marry into the Clans, someone who had sworn blood-brotherhood with a Kaled-a-in, or someone who had done the Clan a great service.
The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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Talia knew Skif better than Kris did; they'd been very dose as students, close enough that they'd sworn blood-brotherhood.
Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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