comradeliness

English

Etymology

comradely + -ness.

Noun

comradeliness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being comradely.
    • 1972, Richard Ellmann, Ulysses on the Liffey, Oxford University Press, Chapter VII, p. 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, p. 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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