Friendhood

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends..

Definitions by Sense

1. The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends.
2. A society or band of friends.

Example Sentences

This is fully and quickly intelligible, but what it says is that the process of turning out to be a friend began, not with a set of properties that inconclusively indicated friendhood, but with a set that in fact inconclusively indicated unfriendliness.

Now, if you may remember, until this point both girls had not been truly friends, not in any lasting way that is. It was only that they had just recently, and painfully, forsaken enemyship, and were only just beginning the first processes of friendhood, which was now coming into fruition; And it was here, at this memory, that I believe both girls would recount as their true beginning.

This reform was a most drastic one, carried out with genial simplicity: his Friendhoods of warriors were commanded to go everywhere and to see that the population of the land should be assembled in each district, driven into the rivers, [...]

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• friendhoods

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