sisterliness
- a word derived from sisterly.
Example Sentences
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It highlights black women’s physique, their talent, their entrepreneurial desires, their ability to think on their feet — their sisterliness, their positivity, their capacity to smile and smile and smile.
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2018
You’d call it sisterliness, if that didn’t sound so my-pal-the-Hollywood-star deluded.
From The Guardian • Jan. 3, 2016
I would never argue that a feminist had to be sisterly, any more than sisterliness does anything for feminism.
From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2013
But she lulled herself with the delusion that all this was brotherliness and that all her feelings were sisterliness.
From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by Miller, John Maurice
Calmed by my words and touched by my sisterliness, she wiped her eyes, and taking my hand, led me gently away.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah