Meaning of brotherkin | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“«Er hat Recht,» fiel der Regiſtrator Heerbrand ein, «der Kerl, der Archivarius, iſt ein verfluchter Salamander, der mit den Fingern feurige Schnippchen ſchlägt, die einem Löcher in den Ueberrock brennen wie glühender Schwamm. — Ja, ja, Du haſt Recht, Brüderchen Anſelmus, und wer es nicht glaubt, iſt mein Feind!»”

“Wert thou, my little Brotherkin, suddenly covered-up within the largest imaginable Glass-bell,—what a thing it were, not for thyself only, but for the world! Post Letters, more or fewer, from all the four winds, impinge against thy Glass walls, but have to drop unread: neither from within comes there question or response into any Postbag; […]”

“The same brotherkin, with Arnold de Tungris and other sworn calumniators of Cologne, insulted the most upright and learned man, Reuchlin of Pfortzheim, and spread the most wicked lies about the world to their own everlasting infamy. So did Wigandus, the beginning and the support of the Dominican heresy at Berne; so did that Dominican brotherkin and Thomist doctor against the illustrious doctor in each faculty, Sebastian Brand, now chancellor and councillor at Zurich, as well as against other famous doctors, being and speaking evil. So did Sylvester Prierias, though master of the palace to the Pope at Rome, brotherkin of the same order of Dominicans and Thomist doctor, inveigh against that most combative doctor, Martin Luther of Wittenberg, not without giving proof of his own ignorance. […] He had appeared in the court as advocate of the accused on that occasion when the cause was postponed for two days, had been reviled, he says, by “that brotherkin (I err), that great, swollen, and fat brother, Nicolas Savin, of the Dominican Convent, Inquisitor¹,” and threatened with a process against himself also, as favourer of heretics; […] Let this brotherkin, priest, or Levite, turn his heart from her. […] Farewell, and either avoid or banish this blaspheming brotherkin.”

“А перед праздниками, братец, очень я близко сошёлся с писателем Графом Толстым, и очень они мне понравились, и имею я теперь от них очень милое и дорогое для меня письмо. И слушали они, братец мой, первый квартет и во время анданте ажно слезы проливали. И очень я, братец мой, этим горжусь, и ты, братец мой, не забывайся, потому я ведь, братец ты мой, птица довольно важная. Ну прощай, братец ты мой.”

“There is nothing better in the book than his account of the “Two Poor Little Nestlings of Belgium,” a tiny orphan boy of five who “protected” his three-year-old brotherkin during their flight, and who said “in a very small, beseeching voice already half asleep” to the kind French lady bending down to him: “Madame, is anyone going to put us to bed?””

“ἀπόδεσμος τῆς στακτῆς ἀδελφιδός μου ἐμοί ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν μαστῶν μου αὐλισθήσεται / βότρυς τῆς κύπρου ἀδελφιδός μου ἐμοὶ ἐν ἀμπελῶσιν Εγγαδδι […] ἰδοὺ εἶ καλός ὁ ἀδελφιδός μου καί γε ὡραῖος πρὸς κλίνη ἡμῶν σύσκιος […] ὡς μῆλον ἐν τοῖς ξύλοις τοῦ δρυμοῦ οὕτως ἀδελφιδός μου ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν υἱῶν […] φωνὴ ἀδελφιδοῦ μου ἰδοὺ οὗτος ἥκει πηδῶν ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη διαλλόμενος ἐπὶ τοὺς βουνούς / ὅμοιός ἐστιν ἀδελφιδός μου τῇ δορκάδι ἢ νεβρῷ ἐλάφων ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη Βαιθηλ”

“We’re gonna get your brotherkin off, but he’s gonna need my help.”

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