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brotherly

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1. brotherly - Adjective

2. brotherly - Adverb

Meaning

Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.

Like a brother; affectionately; kindly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. Milan Kundera

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles

Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia. Ali Abdullah Saleh

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. Bertrand Russell

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. Frank Moore Colby

Brotherly love for brotherly love, but cheese for money. Albanian Proverb

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