neighbourlily

comparative more neighbourlily · superlative most neighbourlily

1. British standard spelling of neighborlily.

   David stepped up the tempo of the talk as surely, as neighbourlily, as ever.

   1961, Ernest Buckler, “Part Six: The Train”, in Malcolm Ross, editor, The Mountain and the Valley (New Canadian Library; 23), Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, published October 1966, →OCLC, page 228

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   Owain gave Gort what directions he could, then asked neighbourlily where they had come from.

   1984, lawson davies, chapter 5, in The Garden of Earthly Delights, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 48

   The Pembrokes’ cousin, the poet George Herbert, who in the early 1630s was the vicar of Bemerton, in the valley of the Nadder between Wilton and Salisbury, gave many overlapping reasons for beating the bounds in May: […] it was an act of charity and neighbourliness, ‘in living, walking and neighbourlily accompanying one another, with reconciling of differences at that time, if they be any’.

   2008, Adam Nicolson, “And is not euery manor a little common wealth? The inherited community of the Middle Ages”, in Earls of Paradise, London: HarperPress, →ISBN, page 44