brotherly love

English

Alternative forms

• sisterly love (among females)

Noun

brotherly love (uncountable)

1. Synonym of agape
2. A kindly and lenient attitude towards others.
   • 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter 15, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC:

     Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.

   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter XVIII, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:

     He always managed to have one or two slaves to whip on Monday morning, so as to start his hands to their work, under the inspiration of a new assurance on Monday, that his preaching about kindness, mercy, brotherly love, and the like, on Sunday, did not interfere with, or prevent him from establishing his authority, by the cowskin.

Translations

kindly and lenient attitude towards others.

• Aghwan: 𐔼𐕐𐔴𐔱𐕒𐕡𐕙𐔱𐕒𐕡𐕍𐔰𐕒𐕡𐕎 (išeburbuq̇aun)
• Georgian: ძმური სიყვარული (ʒmuri siq̇varuli)
• German: Bruderliebe f
• Gothic: 𐌱𐍂𐍉𐌸𐍂𐌿𐌻𐌿𐌱𐍉 f (brōþrulubō)
• Old Church Slavonic: братолюбьство (bratoljubĭstvo)
• Old English: brōþorlufu f
• Plautdietsch: Breedaleew f

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} iubire frățească f, ^{(please verify)} dragoste frățească f
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} cariad brawdol m

References

• "brotherly love" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.