Word Meanings - SISTERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse. Shak.

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• KINDNESS
  1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts
• SISTER
  AS. sweostor, sweoster, swuster, akin to OFries. sweester, suster, LG. süster, suster, D. zuster, OS. & OHG. swestar, G. schwester, Icel. systir, Sw. syster, Dan. söster, Goth. swistar, Lith. ses, Russ. sestra, Pol. siostra, L. soror, Skr. svasr.
• REMORSELESS
  Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." South. "With remorseless cruelty." Milton. Syn. -- Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable;
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• AFFECTIONATE
  1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• SISTERING
  Contiguous. Shak.
• AFFECTIONATENESS
  The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• AFFECTIONATELY
  With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
• REMORSEFUL
  1. Full of remorse. The full tide of remorseful passion had abated. Sir W. Scott. 2. Compassionate; feeling tenderly. Shak. 3. Exciting pity; pitiable. Chapman. -- Re*morse"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*morse"ful*ness, n.
• BECOMINGNESS
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
• REMORSED
  Feeling remorse.
• BECOMING
  Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
• SISTERLY
  Like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse. Shak.
• SISTER-IN-LAW
  The sister of one's husband or wife; also, the wife of one's brother; sometimes, the wife of one's husband's or wife's brother.
• SISTERHOOD
  1. The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister. She . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife. Daniel. 2. A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith
• REMORSE
  remorsus, fr. L. remordere, remorsum, to bite again or back, to 1. The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life. "Nero will be tainted
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• UNREMORSELESS
  Utterly remorseless. "Unremorseless death." Cowley.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• MISBECOMING
  Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
• LOVING-KINDNESS
  Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33.
• STEPSISTER
  A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.
• DISAFFECTIONATE
  Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. Blount.
• UNSISTER
  To separate, as sisters; to disjoin. Tennyson.