fellowman
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fellowman
First recorded in 1750–60
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He felt that God would not let him perish by the sword if he did not live by the sword, and he had a deep sense of duty to his fellowman.
From Time Magazine Archive
One Raymond Briez, 29, underwent last week his 101st transfusion by which he gave a quart of his blood to save the life of a fellowman.
From Time Magazine Archive
We demand the abolition of slavery because the slave is a human being and because man should not hold property in his fellowman....
From Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Lutz, Alma
Why does man show forth such attitude and actions toward his fellowman?
From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá
What distinguished the bad man in peculiarity from his fellowman?
From The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado by Hough, Emerson
In 1984, the Alabama Supreme Court defined moral turpitude as “an act of baseness, vileness or depravity in the private and social duties which a man owes to his fellowmen or to society in general.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2016
What do we do in school to help a child to understand himself and his fellowmen in the light of modern psychological discoveries?
From Time Magazine Archive
His belief in God and his fellowmen was always evident.
From Time Magazine Archive
But a mysterious blond man who has haunted him all these years, takes him for an automobile ride and explains that Arthur must love his fellowmen; that the future of humanity is divinity.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wondered what criterion people used when they applied the tags “good” and “bad” to their fellowmen.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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