[f. BROTHERLY + -NESS.] The quality of being brotherly; brotherly affection or sympathy.
1532. Tindale, Expos. Matt., Wks. II. 86. If brotherliness will not help … let him execute thy power.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., Table Script. Quots, Honour all men, love brotherlinesse.
1618. Bolton, Florus (1636), 285. The brotherlinesse of the Generals drew exceeding favour to that side.
1878. T. Hardy, Return of Native, II. III. ii. 85. He still cleaved to plain living … and brotherliness with clowns.
