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Brotherhood

noun

The kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings.

People engaged in a particular occupation. Synonyms: fraternity, sodality.

The feeling that men should treat one another like brothers.

An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer. Synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, union.

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"Brotherhood" Quotes from Famous Books

... not Highlanders. They ain't interested enough in universal brotherhood and peace ...

— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens

... that soul rest which only can be found in the hearty acceptance of the glorious Gospel of the Son of God, are asking. I tried to apologise for the slowness of the advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom, and the apathy of those who, while acknowledging the brotherhood of humanity, so often forget that they are ...

— By Canoe and Dog-Train • Egerton Ryerson Young

... human race so much into one community that one may hope yet to see the dawn of that fraternity of peoples which may end the present prospects of wars unparalleled in the past. How very much William Booth has contributed to bring that universal brotherhood about this ...

— The Authoritative Life of General William Booth • George Scott Railton

... later, when Marcel had already forgotten his terrible plans for vengeance upon his persecutors, he received a visit from Father Medicis. For that was the name by which the brotherhood called a certain Jew, whose real name was Soloman, and who at that time was well known throughout the bohemia of art and literature, with which he constantly had dealings. Father Medicis dealt in all sorts of bric-a-brac. He sold complete house-furnishings for from twelve ...

— International Short Stories: French • Various

... heathen round about." Yet Cicero, a poor pagan lawyer, said this—and he had not even read the old testament—had not even had the advantage of being enlightened by the prophets: "They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens, and not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, and with it benevolence and justice would perish forever." Is not Cicero greater than Jehovah? The bible, inspired by Jehovah, says: "If a man smite his servant with a rod and he die under his hand he shall be punished. ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll

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