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noun

Sisterhood n.

The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister. "She... abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife."

A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively. "A sisterhood of holy nuns." "The fair young flowers... a beauteous sisterhood."

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Etymology of 'Sisterhood'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sisterhood" Quotes from Famous Books

... ones evidencing to the kindness and care of these good women. What indeed would the inhabitants of these wintry mountain regions, so far from the civilization of great cities, do without their clergy, and the noble sisterhood who devote themselves to a ...

— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo • W. Cope Devereux

... slowly passing into that shadow where all class forms are lost, as if she claimed the right before a court higher than the petty courts of human customs. No word was spoken—no word was needed. The daughter of Peter Martin and the daughter of Adam Ward knew that the bond of their sisterhood was sealed. ...

— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright

... the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas! they all are in their graves; the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie; but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ...

— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various

... hard at that time of night to make anything but a black blotch out of the Abbie Rose. Of course I could see that she was pot-bellied, like the rest of the coastwise sisterhood. And that McCord had not stowed his topsails. I could make them out, pursed at the mastheads and hanging down as far as the cross-trees, like huge, over-ripe pears. Then I recollected that he had found them so—probably had not touched them since; a queer ...

— Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Ghost Stories • Various

... out as a governess, do not be uneasy respecting her lot. The sketch you give of her character leads me to think she has a better chance of happiness than one in a hundred of her sisterhood. Of pleasing exterior (that is always an advantage—children like it), good sense, obliging disposition, cheerful, healthy, possessing a good average capacity, but no prominent master talent to make her ...

— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter

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