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comradeliness

comradeliness noun: the state or quality of being comradely.

Noun

comradeliness (uncountable)

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

Origin of comradeliness

From comradely + -ness.

Words formed from comradeliness

Questions about comradeliness

What does comradeliness mean?
Comradeliness means the state or quality of being comradely.
What part of speech is comradeliness?
Comradeliness is a noun.

Words near comradeliness in the dictionary

  1. comrad
  2. comrade
  3. comrade in arms
  4. comraded
  5. comradeless
  6. comradeliness
  7. comradely
  8. comraderies
  9. comradery
  10. comrades
  11. comrades in arms

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