fellowman
Americannoun
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fellowmen
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fellowman
First recorded in 1750–60
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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
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
Brother, you has to have faith in your fellowman befo' you has faith in de Lawd.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration
It impairs his sympathy with his fellowman, and inflames his egotism.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
With skyline bounds from east to west And room to go and come, I loved my fellowman the best When he was scattered some. p.
From Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by Lomax, John Avery
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
Devotion to God, loyalty to country, love of our fellowmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
He does not knock his fellowmen, or harbor any grudges then.
From Time Magazine Archive
His abilities have carried him up and away from the grass-roots lives and problems of his fellowmen, but he has done his best to compensate for his bureaucratic isolation.
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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