a., adv. [see -LIKE.]

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  A.  adj. Like a brother; fraternal, brotherly.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 122. Brotherlike, fraternus.

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1593.  Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., V. i. 105. Welcome good Clarence, this is Brother-like.

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a. 1625.  E. Chaloner, Six Serm. (1629), 19. This is a brotherlike admonition, and a friendlike expostulation.

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  B.  adv. After the manner of a brother.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. III. II. viii. 212. All Patriots … mourning brotherlike.

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1859.  Tennyson, Enid, 1732. The King … kiss’d her with all pureness, brotherlike.

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