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Gastroenterologist William Haubrich of La Jolla, Calif., protested that proffering a bill to a fellow doctor smacks of commercialism and erodes the strong feelings of fraternalism in the medical community.

From Time Magazine Archive

Almost all of Merrill Lynch's investment banking business comes from new, medium-sized companies, which prefer service to fraternalism.

From Time Magazine Archive

In these democratic days, he can only proceed by ruling despotically with the popular consent; in other words, there will follow a regime of paternalism and fraternalism, the practical outcome of which would be Socialism.

From Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series by Macpherson, Hector Carsewell

That were better called, once for all, a fraternalism.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

It is the co-operation and co-ordination of equal partners, and while by a figure of speech fraternalism might be used to describe it, paternalism can never be properly so used.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)