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companionate

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com·pan·ion·ate  (km-pny-nt)
adj.
1. Having the qualities of a companion.
2. Harmonious; suitable.
com·panion·ate·ly adv.
companionate [kəmˈpænjənɪt]
adj
1. resembling, appropriate to, or acting as a companion
2. harmoniously suited
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Adj.1.companionate - like a companion; "companionate marriage"; "a companionate dog"
friendly - characteristic of or befitting a friend; "friendly advice"; "a friendly neighborhood"; "the only friendly person here"; "a friendly host and hostess"


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Riney-Kehrberg might have expanded on a point she briefly mentions early in the book: that there was a gradual shift from a corporate understanding of farm family life, in which children's needs are subordinated to the family's interests, to a companionate ideal.
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That companionate marriage, which was invented only in the 19th century, doesn't work.
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She is shrewd on Bowen's Irishness, her complicated childhood and adolescence, her long and happy but probably companionate marriage, her love affairs, her literary and social friendships, her accomplishments.
Christmas Critics by Yardley, Jonathan / Commonweal
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