comradeliness

English

Etymology

comradely + -ness.

Noun

comradeliness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being comradely.
    • 1972, Richard Ellmann, chapter VII, in Ulysses on the Liffey, Oxford University Press, page 146:
      Joyce draws upon Christ's parable of the Good Samaritan to make Bloom's unassuming act of comradeliness an instance of Agape.
    • 1984, Nadine Gordimer, “Something Out There”, in Something Out There, Penguin, page 175:
      Old Grahame Fraser-Smith—the 'old' was an epithet of comradeliness on the part of his colleagues, he was only forty-eight— []

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