fraternal
adjective
of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
fraternalism
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a word derived from
fraternal.
Example Sentences
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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
A letter from the Irish Women's League of Dublin and one from the English Women's Equal Rights Union to the State president indicated the world-wide spirit of fraternalism which embraced even Mississippi's modest organization.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper
Whitman means a letting-up of the strain all along the line,—less hurry, less greed, less rivalry, more leisure, more charity, more fraternalism and altruism, more religion, less formality and convention.
From Whitman A Study by John Burroughs
Literary illustrations of this spirit of fraternalism lie close at hand.
From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Bliss Perry
