brotherly love
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- noun
- /ˈbrʌðərli lʌv/
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amor fraternal
- During the holiday season, acts of brotherly love unite our community in caring for those in need.
I said, all right, all right, well, brotherly love, we'll go.
- I said, all right, all right, well, brotherly love, we'll go.
Examples
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They forgot the lesson of brotherly love that Christ had taught.
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In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did they produce?
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And what is this act of brotherly love going to cost me?
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And it is our hope that our brotherly love will then spread throughout the world.
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Brotherly love is such a beautiful thing.
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Be devoted to one another in brotherly love.
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Show your brotherly love!
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Basketball is the perfect forum to create and cultivate feelings of friendship, unity, and brotherly love.
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Second, Obama's victory and the widespread Democratic success will usher in an unprecedented age of growth, peace, and brotherly love.
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Freemasonry dates from the early days of King Solomon and served as the organization for the masons of great temples to perpetuate honesty and brotherly love.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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Being kind and forgiving toward other people
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A warm, gentle feeling of care and concern for other people
Friendly, kind, and supportive feeling between people like close family members
A feeling of love and care for other people or animals
A kind and friendly feeling toward other people
Antonyms
How Brotherly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'brotherly' (like a brother) with 'love' (affection), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer a kindly, familial-like affection. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'amor fraternal', French 'amour fraternel', Japanese '兄弟愛'), making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Brotherly love comes from old religious groups where people called each other 'brother' and were taught to treat one another with care. So brotherly (like a brother) and love (deep care) came to mean a 'kind and caring attitude' toward others.