comradely

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1. Having the characteristics of a comrade or of comradeship; companionable.

   "Now, if you ever want to put anythin' out of sight, Julia," commented Ferd, with a comradely wink, "you'll know how to do it […]"

   1932, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter I, in Forgive Us Our Trespasses, New York: Grosset & Dunlap

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   Land must be cleared before there was much stock-work for sheep and cattle dogs. But Bobtails were comradely; they guarded the men from the desperate loneliness in those isolated places.

   1944, Emily Carr, “Punk”, in The House of All Sorts

2. Of or relating to comradeship; between or among comrades.

   During the trial they conferred together amiably in whispers, continued their comradely discussions during recesses.

   1957 June 3, “A Question of Justice”, in Time

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   Heather was thinking not of the dead, but of the incorrigible living, of him whom she had striven hard, not with tears and common female wiles but with comradely devotion, to save from his worst enemy, himself.

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 165

   I touch her cheek, take her hand. On this bleak hillside in mid-morning I can find no trace in myself of that stupefied eroticism that used to draw me night after night to her body or even of the comradely affection of the road.

   1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Secker & Warburg, page 99

   Much of Kühne's work is based on an analysis of comradely ideals constructed and sanctified, especially by right-wing groups, in the interwar years.

   2014, Jason Crouthamel, An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality, and German Soldiers in the First World War, Palgrave Macmillan, Introduction, p. 8

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1. rareIn the manner of a comrade.

   He smiled at her as he had before they were lovers; the breasts and thighs and backsides, knees, feet and arms comradely crowded together on the truck seemed to deny the reality of the physical presence he had lent her in a hotel room in Dar.

   1980, Nadine Gordimer, “A Hunting Accident”, in A Soldier's Embrace, Penguin, published 1982, page 59