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▪ I. sisterly, a.|ˈsɪstəlɪ|
[f. sister n. + -ly1.]
1. Of or pertaining to a sister; also, characteristic of, befitting, becoming, or like a sister.
1570Levins Manip. 100 Sisterly, sororius. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 100 After much debatement, My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour. 1756Warburton Bolingbroke's Philos. iii. 158 We shall hear no more of this sisterly resemblance [of Christianity] to Platonism. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xlv, A renewal of all the maternal kindness of the abbess, and of the sisterly attentions of the nuns. 1821Scott Pirate xix, They..exchanged a sisterly kiss, and a sisterly good-night. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xliii, She..read him lectures with sisterly frankness. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 10 Exhibiting in their own lives every joy of sisterly love.
2. Of or pertaining to a sisterhood.
1883Women's Suffrage Jrnl. Nov. 201 The self-devotion of women to the sisterly life arose out of Christ's teaching.
▪ II. sisterly, adv.|ˈsɪstəlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In the manner or spirit of a sister.
1616J. Lane Contin. Sqr.'s T. viii. 68 Yet if thow die the deathe, I live that liefe Which dieth sisterlie with Algarsife. a1821Keats Hyperion i. 296 Those silver wings expanded sisterly. 1864F. W. Robinson Mattie, a Stray III. 205 She spoke coolly and sisterly now. |