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friendship noun 1. attachment, relationship, bond, alliance, link, association, tie They struck up a close friendship. 2. friendliness, affection, harmony, goodwill, intimacy, affinity, familiarity, closeness, rapport, fondness, companionship, concord, benevolence, comradeship, amity, good-fellowship a whole new world of friendship and adventure friendliness conflict, hostility, hatred, resentment, strife, animosity, aversion, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, bad blood, unfriendliness 3. closeness, love, regard, affection, intimacy, fondness, companionship, comradeship He really values your friendship. Quotations "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies" [Aristotle] "Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it" [Cicero De Amicitia] "Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex" [Joseph Roux Meditations of a Parish Priest] Translations friendship n → Freundschaft f |
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For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness, and confusion of thoughts. Love is all very well in its way, but friendship is much higher. --thus speaketh the true reverence, which doth not venture to solicit friendship. |
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