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Fellowship   /fˈɛloʊʃˌɪp/   Listen
noun
Fellowship  n.  
1.
The state or relation of being or associate.
2.
Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. "In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods." "Men are made for society and mutual fellowship."
3.
A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest. "The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our fellowship." "Fellowship in pain divides not smart". "Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage". "The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record."
4.
Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company. "The sorrow of Noah with his fellowship." "With that a joyous fellowship issued Of minstrels."
5.
(Eng. & Amer. Universities) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.
6.
(Arith.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.
Good fellowship, companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. "There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee."



verb
Fellowship  v. t.  (past & past part. fellowshiped; pres. part. fellowshiping)  (Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.






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"Fellowship" Quotes from Famous Books



... repeat, pretend to measure him with Shelley, Byron or Keats, though I think none of them would have disdained his gift of song. But assuredly he is of their fellowship in virtue, not only of his early death, but of his whole-hearted devotion to the spirit of Romance, as they understood it. From his boyhood upward, his one passion was for beauty; and it was in the guise of Romance that beauty revealed itself to him. He was from the first determined ...
— Poems • Alan Seeger

... recognize chastity as an ideal and referred scornfully to "that kind of insanity which has turned a girl's virginity into a thing with a real existence," while William Morris, in his downright manner, once declared at a meeting of the Fellowship of the New Life, that asceticism is "the most disgusting vice that afflicted human nature." Blake, though he seems always to have been a strictly moral man in the most conventional sense, felt nothing but contempt for chastity, and sometimes confers ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... frame a prayer for myself in particular, without a catalogue for my friends; nor request a happiness wherein my sociable disposition doth not desire the fellowship of my neighbour. I never heard the toll of a passing-bell, though in my mirth, without my prayers and best wishes for the departing spirit. I cannot go to cure the body of my patient, but I forget my profession, and call unto God for ...
— Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' - an Appreciation • Alexander Whyte

... may happiness be thine in the time to come; but as now, thou art fast holden in many sorrows! Father Zeus, none other god is more baneful than thou; thou hast no compassion on men, that are of thine own begetting, but makest them to have fellowship with evil and with bitter pains. The sweat brake out on me when I beheld him, and mine eyes stand full of tears for memory of Odysseus, for he too, methinks, is clad in such vile raiment as this, and is wandering among men, if haply he ...
— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.

... art about which the ignorance of outsiders is ineffable. I was once asked, in the way of courtesy and good neighborhood, to call on a clergyman in our vicinity,—which I did. Desirous of doing his part in the matter of good fellowship and smooth conversation, ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various


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