Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fellow-like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Fellowlike.
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- adjective
Fellowlike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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[453-14] _Fall fellowly drops_ means _shed tears in sympathy_.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Why not be fellowly with our carnal neighbors, if we take occasion to do so that we may drop and be distilling some good doctrine upon their souls?
The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
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Stubbs also speaks of it as a "bloody and murthering practice, rather than a fellowly sport or pastime."
Old English Sports 1892
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2020: Fall fellowly drops: The charme dissolues apace,
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All they, be they what boasted ones you please, who, to the yearning of our kind after a founded rule of content, offer aught not in the spirit of fellowly gladness based on due confidence in what is above, away with them for poor dupes, or still poorer impostors. "
The Confidence-Man 1857
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All they, be they what boasted ones you please, who, to the yearning of our kind after a founded rule of content, offer aught not in the spirit of fellowly gladness based on due confidence in what is above, away with them for poor dupes, or still poorer impostors. "
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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