[f. as prec. + -LY2.] In the manner or spirit of a brother; fraternally.
1526. Tindale, 1 Peter i. 22. To love brotherly withouten faynynge.
1590. H. Barrow, in Conferences, i. 1. To confer brotherly and christianly with me.
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., IV. iii. 38. How should you gouerne any Kingdome, That know not … how to vse your Brothers Brotherly.
1650. S. Clarke, Eccl. Hist. (1654), I. 237. He exhorted them lovingly and brotherly to lay down their arms.
1805. Scott, Last Minstrel, II. xx. The man he had loved so brotherly.
