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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Almost all of Merrill Lynch's investment banking business comes from new, medium-sized companies, which prefer service to fraternalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
And what revelations as into a mystic fraternalism with words do you obtain when you confront such a phrase as "the bank teller" or "cut to the _quick"!
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
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
