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ˈneighbour-like, a. and adv.
[f. as prec. + -like.]
a. adv. In a neighbourly fashion.
b. adj. Neighbourly, friendly, kindly. (In later use chiefly Sc.)
1499Exch. Rolls Scotl. XI. 395 Ane sufficient tenant and nychtbour..abill to keip the said steid nychtbourlike. c1572Gascoigne Fruites Warre cxxxvii, Three dayes wee fought, as long as water serued, And came to ancor neyghbourlike yfeere. 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iii. iii. 1290 A dunce I see is a neighbourlike brute beast, a man may liue by him. 1674Ch. & Court of Rome 6 The Neighbour-like Terms of the old Regulæ Patrum. 1790D. Morison Poems 157 (E.D.D.), To gar our bed look hale and neighbour-like. 1815Scott Guy M. xliv, He'll be glad to carry me through, and be neighbour-like. 1827Miss Sedgwick H. Leslie (1872) II. 158 Kindness and neighbour⁓like conduct. |