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noun

Fellowship n.

1.

The state or relation of being or associate.

2.

Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. "In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods." "Men are made for society and mutual fellowship."

3.

A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest. "The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our fellowship." "Fellowship in pain divides not smart". "Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage". "The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record."

4.

Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company. "The sorrow of Noah with his fellowship." "With that a joyous fellowship issued Of minstrels."

5.

(Eng. & Amer. Universities) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.

6.

(Arith.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.

Good fellowship, companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. "There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee."

verb

Fellowship v. t. (past & past part. fellowshiped; pres. part. fellowshiping) (Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.

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"Fellowship" Quotes from Famous Books

... God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it. (*Two foundations there are which bear up public societies; the one a natural inclination, whereby all men desire sociable life and fellowship; the other an order, expresly or secretly agreed upon, touching the manner of their union in living together: the latter is that which we call the law of a common-weal, the very soul of a politic body, the parts whereof are by law animated, held together, and set on work ...

— Two Treatises of Government • John Locke

... to give up his friendship; but, nevertheless, he had an idea that it was presumption on the part of Mr. Fitzgerald of Hap House to look up to his sister. Between himself and Owen the earl's coronet never weighed a feather; he could not have abandoned his boy's heart to the man's fellowship more thoroughly had that man been an earl as well as himself. But he could not get over the feeling that Fitzgerald's worldly position was beneath that of his sister;—that such a marriage on his sister's ...

— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope

... they are God's dear children. To whom they belong; to Christ who has given Himself for them. What they ought to do; to follow God's likeness, and live in love. That they are light in the Lord; and are to walk as children of the light; and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. As much as to say: Do not believe those who tell you that there is no harm in young people going wrong together before marriage, provided they intend to marry after all. Do not believe those ...

— Sermons on National Subjects • Charles Kingsley

... history of tobacco, it appears that it was unknown to all the civilized world, till within three hundred years; and that even now, all the polished and enlightened portion of community abroad—and we add, a very respectable portion at home—have no fellowship with the filthy weed. And can any man justify himself in the daily use of a disgusting plant, against the practice, opinion, and remonstrances of so large a portion of the civilized world? Can he be discharging the ...

— A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco - and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation • Orin Fowler

... associations circle round it, for on certain days during the summer months motor coaches, chartered by the Dickens Fellowship, make this the starting point for their pilgrimages into Dickens-land, often taking the route the Pickwickians did, ...

— The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick" - With Some Observations on their Other Associations • B.W. Matz

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