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Definition of Sisterlike
1. Adjective. Like or characteristic of or befitting a sister. "Sororal concern"
Definition of Sisterlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a sister or some aspect of one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sisterlike
Literary usage of Sisterlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1859)
"sisterlike, this letter concludes with a commission to buy millinery. All through
the War of Independence, this lady kept up a ..."
2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward, Matthew Arnold (1907)
"... such as death may strike Thou once wert sister sisterlike! Thou headstone of
humanity, Groundstone of the great Mystery, Fashioned like us, ..."
3. Rossetti by Arthur Christopher Benson (1904)
"... Blessed Virgin on the very throne of heaven — " Oh when our need is uttermost,
Think that to such as death may strike Thou once wert sister sisterlike ! ..."
4. Rossetti by Arthur Christopher Benson (1904)
"... Blessed Virgin on the very throne of heaven— " Oh when our need is uttermost,
Think that to such as death may strike Thou once wert sister sisterlike ! ..."
5. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1867)
"... meal-white Peruke-makers; or Peruke-wearers, for Advocate and Judge are there,
and all Heads of Districts : sober Nuns sisterlike with flaunting nymphs ..."
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