Adjective : sisterly affection. From Dictionary.com.
But she lulled herself with the delusion that all this was brotherliness and that all her feelings were sisterliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
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 since, the stern red lips of that pale, proud, passionate face pressed in trembling sisterliness to the harlot's purple cheek. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
I glared, but with one look of hurt sisterliness she melted me. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavalier] Reference
Calmed by my words and touched by my sisterliness, she wiped her eyes, and taking my hand, led me gently away. From Wordnik.com. [My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt] Reference
And you know, we're all individuals, the idea that there would be this warm bath of sisterliness was a totally unrealistic expectation. From Wordnik.com. [feeling listless] Reference
Since his refusal to abet the project of a loan to Albert, Clara had been secretly hostile under her superficial sisterliness, and Auntie. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
She was his senior by five years, and their first acquaintance had been one of boy-adoration on his side and a charming elder-sisterliness on hers. From Wordnik.com. [The Testing of Diana Mallory] Reference
Her regard for the Doctor was elaborate in the sisterliness of its expression when he was present, if in his absence it was tempered by a regretful sigh -- even by a reference to the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
Her tender sisterliness, which had been such balm and comfort to him, grew at times intolerable; and again and again her gentle spirit was deeply disquieted with the fear that she had displeased him, so strangely did he conduct himself. From Wordnik.com. [Ramona] Reference
A little chilled by standing, in spite of that soft wind, Pauline ran lightly along towards Lac Calvaire, conscious always of her fine appearance and humming operatic snatches as she ran, bent upon an errand, which if not precisely one of mercy was yet one prompted by good-will and a belated sisterliness. From Wordnik.com. [Ringfield A Novel] Reference
And strangely, to prove that women are all of a pack, she had worn exactly the same placidity of countenance just before she fled, as Clara yesterday and to-day; no nervousness, no flushes, no twitches of the brows, but smoothness, ease of manner -- an elegant sisterliness, one might almost say: as if the creature had found a midway and borderline to walk on between cruelty and kindness, and between repulsion and attraction; so that up to the verge of her breath she did forcefully attract, repelling at one foot's length with her armour of chill serenity. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
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