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fraternal

adjective as in brotherly

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Freemasonry is a centuries-old fraternal organisation with about six million members worldwide, including more than 200,000 in England and Wales.

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Warm words were spoken of fraternal friendship and support.

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The play, which radically recasts the fraternal relationship, developed far beyond its originating impetus.

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But there’s a tentativeness to the portrayal, a watering down of the fraternal volatility that ultimately makes Booth so dangerous.

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Johnson justified the action as a means to “promote and procure complete fraternal reconciliation among the whole people.”

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