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The quality or state of being a female sibling

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  • Adjective : sisterly affection
  • But she lulled herself with the delusion that all this was brotherliness and that all her feelings were sisterliness.
  • All the smothered sisterliness came to the surface for an instant as she trembled and drew near to the two in the old chintz-covered rocker.
  • But looking back in after years, when the lesser influences had cleared away in the magic glass of Time, Ned could ever see, clear and distinct as though it were but a minute...
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