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▪ I. neighbourly, a.|ˈneɪbəlɪ|
[f. neighbour n. + -ly1.]
1. Characteristic of, or befitting, a neighbour or neighbours; friendly, kindly.
1558Reg. Gild Co. Chr. York 305 note, A good occasion of..renewyng of amytie and neighburghly love one with an other. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. ii. 85 He hath a neighbourly charitie in him. 1658Whole Duty Man xvii. §1 By any neighbourly and friendly office. 1727Swift What passed in London Wks. 1755 III. i. 182 He in a very neighbourly manner admonished me. 1791Burke Hints for Mem. Wks. VII. 5 His majesty's benevolent and neighbourly offers. 1884Sir J. W. Chitty in Law Rep. 27 Chanc. Div. 629 He considered it was not a neighbourly thing to press for payment.
b. Friendly but not cordial.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 154 As their States, so their loves and his are but neighbourly. a1628Preston Mt. Ebal (1638) 39 It must be onely with a neighbourly and civill, but not with a conjugall..love.
2. Of persons: Inclined to act as neighbours; situated as neighbours.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 8 Who thinke it Christianitie enough to be harmlesse, ciuill, or neighbourly men. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. ii. 513 Scarce one man would be so neighbourly, To helpe his brother in this malady. 1778F. Burney Evelina xl, Our lodgings were in Holborn, that we might be near his house, and neighbourly. 1822Scott Nigel xxiii, In Alsatia, look ye, a man must be neighbourly and companionable. 1886A. E. B. Soulby in Law Times LXXXI. 446/2 Farmers as a rule are neighbourly and forbearing.
▪ II. ˈneighbourly, adv. ? Obs.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
After the manner of neighbours; in a friendly or kindly fashion.
1525in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. iii. 169 The hous⁓holders..be neybourly drynkyng to-gethers..In Ioyous maner. 1578T. N. tr. Conq. W. India 3 Who friendly and neighbourly graunted his desire. 1654E. Johnson Wonder-wrkg. Provid. 194 It would joyn all the Towns in the same neighbourly together. 1690Mackenzie Siege London-Derry 53/1 Whilst they behave themselves peaceably and neighbourly amongst us. |