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noun

Fellowship n.

1.

The state or relation of being or associate.

2.

Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. "In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods." "Men are made for society and mutual fellowship."

3.

A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest. "The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our fellowship." "Fellowship in pain divides not smart". "Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage". "The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record."

4.

Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company. "The sorrow of Noah with his fellowship." "With that a joyous fellowship issued Of minstrels."

5.

(Eng. & Amer. Universities) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.

6.

(Arith.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.

Good fellowship, companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. "There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee."

verb

Fellowship v. t. (past & past part. fellowshiped; pres. part. fellowshiping) (Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.

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"Fellowship" Quotes from Famous Books

... dissatisfaction, who was compelled to order a third. During the progress of its demolition, the host's tongue became considerably loosened. He talked of hunting and the charms of the chase—of the good fellowship it produced: and expatiated on the advantages it was of to the country in a national point of view, promoting as it did a spirit of manly enterprise, and encouraging our unrivalled breed of horses; both of which he looked upon as national objects, well worthy the ...

— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... protested his innocence over and over again: he declared that he should die under the first lash; that it was for love of me only that he had come on board of a man-of-war; he conjured me by the fellowship of our boyish days, by all that I loved and that was sacred to us, to save him from the gangway. The easiness of my nature was worked upon, and I promised to use my influence to procure for him a pardon. I went to Mr Farmer, but all my efforts were unavailing. The culprit passed a ...

— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard

... of my happy social relations, broken by Ware's departure, came Bellows to fill his place. I gave him the right hand of fellowship at his ordination; and I remember saying in it, that I would not have believed it possible for me to welcome anybody to the place of his predecessor with the pleasure with which I welcomed him. The augury of that hour has been fulfilled in most delightful intercourse ...

— Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. - Edited by his Daughter • Orville Dewey

... and to promote national solidarity. It may be compared to "A Christmas Carol," which was written to restore the waning celebration of Christmas, and to our Declaration of Independence, which is re-read on every Fourth of July to quicken our sense of national fellowship. But "Esther" is more than an institution. It is the old story of two conflicting civilizations, one representing bigness, the other greatness; one standing for materialism, the other for idealism; one enthroning the body, the other ...

— Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith

... sheltered bay, And, landing, hail Apollo's town with prayer. King Anius here, enwreath'd with laurel spray, The priest of Phoebus meets us on the way; With joy at once he recognised again His friend Anchises of an earlier day. And joining hands in fellowship, each fain To show a friendly heart the ...

— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil

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