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Webster 1913 Edition
Brothelry
Broth′el-ry
,Noun.
Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel.
B. Jonson.
Two of us in the churchyard lie,
My sister and my
My sister and my
brother
. Wordsworth.
2.
One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; – used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
“A brother of your order.” Shak.
We few, we happy few, we band of
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my
brothers
,For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my
brother
. Shakespeare
3.
One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
He also that is slothful in his work is
brother
to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9.
That April morn
Of this the very
Of this the very
brother
. Wordsworth.
☞ In Scripture, the term brother is applied to a kinsman by blood more remote than a son of the same parents, as in the case of Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Laban. In a more general sense, brother or brethren is used for fellow-man or fellow-men.
For of whom such massacre
Make they but of their
Make they but of their
brethren
, men of men? Milton.
Brother Jonathan
, a humorous designation for the people of the United States collectively. The phrase is said to have originated from Washington’s referring to the patriotic Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut, as “Brother Jonathan.”
– Blood brother
. See under
Blood
.Webster 1828 Edition
Brothelry
BROTH'ELRY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
brothelry
brothelry
English
Noun
brothelry (uncountable)
- prostitution, especially in brothels
- 1888, John Jewel, The Apology of the Church of England:
- Peter did not thus teach at Rome: Paul did not so live at Rome: they did not practise brothelry, which these do openly: they made not a yearly revenue and profit of harlots: they suffered no common adulterers and wicked murderers to go unpunished.
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