a. [f. L. sorōri-us sisterly + -AL. Cf. F. sororial.] = prec. 3.
1836. T. Hook, G. Gurney (1850), III. iii. 352. ‘Her brother’ … permitted his approbation of her sororial affection to produce a sort of fraternal acknowledgment.
1877. World, VII. 7. The gauntlet of sororial criticism which he finds himself compelled to run.
Hence Sororially adv., in a sisterly manner.
1825. T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. I. 23. Taking her sororially by the hand, she led her forth from the oak parlour.
