SISTERLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sisterly mean? 

• SISTERLY (adjective)
  The adjective SISTERLY has 1 sense:

1. like or characteristic of or befitting a sister

  Familiarity information: SISTERLY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SISTERLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Like or characteristic of or befitting a sister

Synonyms:

sisterlike; sisterly; sororal

Context example:

sororal concern

Antonym:

brotherly (like or characteristic of or befitting a brother)

Derivation:

sister (a female person who has the same parents as another person)

 Context examples 

I think it would not be very likely to promote sisterly affection or delicacy of mind.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"Oh, Teddy, such doings!" and Jo told Amy's wrongs with sisterly zeal.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And I observed that she always spoke of you as 'Fanny,' which she was never used to do; and it had a sound of most sisterly cordiality.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I could not have borne to lose the smallest portion of her sisterly affection; yet, in that betrayal, I should have set a constraint between us hitherto unknown.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The two friends, with hearts now more united than ever, were inseparable for the day; and in schemes of sisterly happiness the hours flew along.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

At first she had tolerated with sisterly fondness what she conceived to be his foolishness; but now, out of sisterly solicitude, she grew anxious.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"And then," I continued, though I have only sisterly affection for him now, yet, if forced to be his wife, I can imagine the possibility of conceiving an inevitable, strange, torturing kind of love for him, because he is so talented; and there is often a certain heroic grandeur in his look, manner, and conversation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her admiration and regard, even her sisterly regard, was all his own; but he was a lover; his attentions were wholly Marianne's, and a far less agreeable man might have been more generally pleasing.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"Really, girls, you are both to be blamed," said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was for me to guard this sisterly affection with religious care.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)