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Antonyms for fellowship

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fel-oh-ship
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɛl oʊˌʃɪp


Definition of fellowship

Origin :
  • c.1200, feolahschipe "companionship," from fellow + -ship. In Middle English it was at times a euphemism for "sexual intercourse" (carnal fellowship).
  • To fellowship with is to hold communion with; to unite with in doctrine and discipline. This barbarism now appears with disgusting frequency in the reports of ecclesiastical conventions, and in the religious newspapers generally. [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]
  • noun sociability, association
Example sentences :
  • We sense the call of the human heart for fellowship, fraternity, and cooperation.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • She saw it was reasonable: what fellowship can light have with darkness, or love with starvation?
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • It lay partly in the bearing fruit, partly in the fellowship which made that possible.
  • Extract from : « Pax Vobiscum » by Henry Drummond
  • It is a law of that fellowship that what is right and legitimate for me is right and legitimate for the other fellow also.
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • That there are defects in this gospel and programme of American fellowship, every one is aware.
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • Yet when one asks the great Russian, "What am I to do as a member of this fellowship?"
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • It is not merely in literature that this message of fellowship is brought to our generation.
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • How can he remain a social animal, with the fellowship of his kind, and stay on the water-wagon?
  • Extract from : « The Old Game » by Samuel G. Blythe
  • A further obstacle to the progress of fellowship lies in selfishness.
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • This commonness of mind and tone is often one of the penalties of fellowship.
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry

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