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Fraternal   /frətˈərnəl/   Listen
Fraternal

adjective
1.
Of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men.
2.
(of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova.  Synonym: biovular.  Antonym: identical.
3.
Like or characteristic of or befitting a brother.  Synonyms: brotherlike, brotherly.  "Close fraternal ties"  Antonym: sisterly.



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"Fraternal" Quotes from Famous Books



... have just heard that sapient Fred Salisbury declare, in the most civil terms chooseable, that your fraternal preceptor, Edwardus magnus, non est inventus," said Frank, pompously, with a most condescending flourish of his person in the direction of ...
— Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May

... displayed likewise in an ardent love for their country in contradistinction to the special locality of the tribe. Thus arose a true fraternal union with all their countrymen of whatever county or city. The old antagonism between family and family only appeared at fitful and unguarded intervals; but in general each one grasped the hand of another only as a ...
— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

... of Vladimir there commenced a carnival of fraternal murders, which ended by leaving Yaroslaf to whom had been assigned the Principality of Novgorod, upon the ...
— A Short History of Russia • Mary Platt Parmele

... could not withdraw myself from the danger. Notwithstanding my blind confidence in you, dear father, I dared not express my fears to you. I directed all my courage to concealing my love; however, I own to you, dear father, notwithstanding my remorse, often in this fraternal intimacy of every day, forgetting the past, I felt gleams of happiness till then unknown to me, but followed soon, alas! by dark despair, when I again fell under the influence of my sad recollections. For, alas! if they pursued me in the midst of the homage and respect of persons almost ...
— Mysteries of Paris, V3 • Eugene Sue

... irregularly sociable side of his nature which had always expressed itself in a relish for ungrammatical conversation, and which often, even in his busy and preoccupied days, had made him sit on rail fences in young Western towns, in the twilight, in gossip hardly less than fraternal with humorous loafers and obscure fortune-seekers. He had notions, wherever he went, about talking with the natives; he had been assured, and his judgment approved the advice, that in traveling abroad it was an ...
— The American • Henry James


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