Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Brotherly; fraternal; like a brother.

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  • adjective Resembling a brother or some aspect of one.

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  • adjective like or characteristic of or befitting a brother

Etymologies

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brother +‎ -like

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Examples

  • He is like a mentor character to Twitch, acting as such in addition to brotherlike character as well.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Burnsauce Johnson’s Review Forum 2009

  • This time I summon the stones to smile at her and be at least somewhat welcoming and brotherlike.

    Venomous 2008

  • This time I summon the stones to smile at her and be at least somewhat welcoming and brotherlike.

    Venomous 2008

  • But the chorus harmonies were close and brotherlike, sweet enough in themselves to make partial headway against the song's otherwise gloom.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • But the chorus harmonies were close and brotherlike, sweet enough in themselves to make partial headway against the song's otherwise gloom.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • But it is not true that the history of such cases, in their administration of justice, as might have occurred in the court of the old [Greek: polemarchos], will allow us to conclude that they are in possession of a rule coercing them to be just and brotherlike towards the unprotected stranger, abstractly and for justice's sake.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

  • The intercourse of the Emperors assumed by degrees the appearance of a brotherlike intimacy.

    The History of Napoleon Buonaparte Lockhart, John G 1906

  • It was at Arcola that Muiron, who ever since the storming of Little Gibraltar had lived on terms of brotherlike intimacy with Napoleon, seeing a bomb about to explode threw himself between it and his general, and thus saved his life at the cost of his own.

    The History of Napoleon Buonaparte Lockhart, John G 1906

  • Ceaselessly they begged to be strengthened in the conviction of immortality and of meeting again brotherlike in God.

    Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

  • But the coincidence of views was very remarkable, and it lay at the foundation of that brotherlike intimacy and friendship which ever marked his relation with Murchison.

    The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880

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