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/sˈɪstərhʊd/ Listen

noun

Sisterhood n.

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."

A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively. "A sisterhood of holy nuns." "The fair young flowers... a beauteous sisterhood."

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Etymology of 'Sisterhood'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sisterhood" Quotes from Famous Books

... when he let her go, but when she saw him striding off toward Mary Matheson's her better wisdom prevailed; following along the lane and taking shelter behind Gramma Pilot's fence, she waited, watched, and listened, to the enduring gain of Urkey's sisterhood. ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... smiling died; And, being to be sanctified, About the bed there sighing stood The sweet and flowery sisterhood: Some hung the head, while some did bring, To wash her, water from the spring; Some laid her forth, while others wept, But all a solemn fast there kept: The holy sisters, some among, The sacred dirge and trental sung. But ah! what ...

— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

... of Loudoun's participation in the last great French and Indian War (1754-1763). It had its beginning three years prior to her admission into the sisterhood of Virginia counties, and the services she must have rendered during that period are, of course, accredited to Fairfax, of which county she was then a part. The few existing or available records of the remaining six years of warfare, ...

— History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia • James W. Head

... the authorities may have been pleased with the bishop's procedure, the nuns were not at all satisfied with it. They not only felt a strong personal affection for Rosamond, but, as a sisterhood, they felt grateful to her memory on account of the many benefactions which the convent had received from Henry on account of her residence there. So they seized the first opportunity to take up the remains ...

— Richard I - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... with his scorn and loathing of the sex. Other women! By an act of his will he had put his wife on a high pedestal for the moment—made her shine, for the moment, white and fair above the contemptible herd, her obscure multitudinous sisterhood. Other women! The phrase had an undertone of dull passionate self-reproach that was distinctly audible to Stanistreet's finer ear. Stanistreet knew many things about Tyson—knew, for instance, the cause that but for this would ...

— The Tysons - (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) • May Sinclair

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