Meaning of FRIENDSHIP
| Pronunciation: | | 'frendship
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| | Definition: | | [n] the state of being friends |
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| | Synonyms: | | friendly relationship |
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| | See Also: | | blood brotherhood, companionship, company, confidence, fellowship, relationship, society, trust | |
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| | Definition: | | Friendship
Friendship is proposed as the foundational relationship that virtue creates--friendship with self, others, and God. Friendship says that to recover virtue in today`s society, one must order his life around values. It explains how to share spirituality, looks at the Bible on developing character, and tells what it means to believe today. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Friend"ship\, n. [AS. fre['o]ndscipe. See {Friend},
and {-ship}.]
1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or
attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection
arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness;
amity; good will.
There is little friendship in the world. --Bacon.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and
no confidence without integrity. --Rambler.
Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by
sufficiency. --Spenser.
2. Kindly aid; help; assistance, [Obs.]
Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst
the tempest. --Shak.
3. Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony;
correspondence. [Obs.]
Those colors . . . have a friendship with each
other. --Dryden.
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| | Related Terms: | | accord, affection, affinity, alliance, amiability, amicability, amity, attachment, attraction, benevolence, brotherhood, closeness, coalition, comity, companionability, comradeship, concord, congeniality, consonance, conviviality, devotion, empathy, esteem, familiarity, federation, fellowship, fondness, fraternity, friendliness, fusion, harmony, intimacy, kindliness, league, love, rapport, sisterhood, sociability, warmth |
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