Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fellow-creature; especially, any member of the human race as compared or contrasted with any other.
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Examples
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A debate on the ostracism of a fellow-being will bring almost any man to a Committee meeting; and the attendance included some never before known to come.
Flowering Wilderness 2004
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Did she want to drive her fellow-being the Associate
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Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries, and the hand is free to accomplish whatever the head conceives not incompatible with the rights of a fellow-being.
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I wonder if it is uncharitable to compare a fellow-being to Satan.
Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988
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Pulling in all his extensions, he shot a tight beam to a fellow-being, Litosa by symbol, and tuned his mind precisely to hers.
Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972
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If there be any kindness we can show, or any good thing we can do to any fellow-being, let us do it now.
From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell
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In the selfish desire to signalize myself, I had hazarded the life of a fellow-being, and brought upon him weeks of suffering which no act of mine could now alleviate.
A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church
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Let it constantly be borne in mind, that charities are duties well performed, of whatever kind they may be, -- as well the faithful fulfilment of an avocation as the aiding of a suffering fellow-being.
The Elements of Character Mary G. Chandler
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The responsibility of having so important an office to fulfil towards any fellow-being as that of sharing in, influencing, and being influenced by all his wishes, actions, and tendencies, has felt very serious.
A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Eliza Southall
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From that moment I felt I had a motive left to cherish life, since my existence could be useful to a fellow-being -- my wanderings finished, and I settled in Alsace.
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