fellow creature
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fellow creature
First recorded in 1640–50
Example Sentences
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I do this because people have a right to this procedure but also because this medical adage resonates with me: “May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain.”
From Scientific American • May 4, 2022
On the one hand, lab-grown animal meat itself is not the kind of thing that would fall under the concept of fellow creature, regardless of whether the cells come from a cow, chicken, or kangaroo.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2021
Lessons learned: the bully was dependent on a fellow creature he’d barely noticed before, and might even have stamped on.
From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2020
We help a fellow creature on his path.
From Time Magazine Archive
With eyes for the most part downcast and, if ever they lighted on a fellow creature, at once and furtively averted, Bernard hastened across the roof.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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