brotherly love en · NOUN
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(uncountable) A kindly and lenient attitude towards others.
He always managed to have one or two slaves to whip on Monday morning, so as to start his hands to their work, under the inspiration of a new assurance on Monday, that his preaching about kindness, mercy, brotherly love, and the like, on Sunday, did not interfere with, or prevent him from establishing his authority, by the cowskin.
1855, Frederick Douglass, “New Relations and Duties”, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part I (Life as a Slave), page 259:Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate; but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.
1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 115:
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nl broederliefde (kindly and lenient attitude towards others.) · cu братолюбьство (kindly and lenient attitude towards others.) · fr amour fraternel (kindly and lenient attitude towards others.) · ka ძმური სიყვარული (kindly and lenient attitude towards others.) · got 𐌱𐍂𐍉𐌸𐍂𐌿𐌻𐌿𐌱𐍉 (kindly and lenient attitude towards others.) · ang brōþorlufu (kindly and lenient attitude towards others.) · de Bruderliebe (kindly and lenient attitude towards others.) · pdt Breedaleew (kindly and lenient attitude towards others.) · xag 𐔼𐕐𐔴𐔱𐕒𐕡𐕙𐔱𐕒𐕡𐕍𐔰𐕒𐕡𐕎 (kindly and lenient attitude towards others.)