Meaning of neighbourship | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state or condition of being neighbours; a connection or relationship between people or things which is based simply on living close geographically.
2. A relationship between people and / or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.

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Examples

“He called to his mind⟳ and said: "Surely the Ant had in former days his dwelling underneath this tree, and was busy in hoarding a store of provision: now I will lay⟳ my wants before her, and, in the name⟳ of good neighbourship, and with an appeal to her generosity, beg⟳ some small relief.”

“The travelling artist they knew, the pedlar, the insurance agent, and the cockney beanfeaster; but the stranger who desired permanent neighbourship with them they knew not; him they treated as a lunatic at large.”

“Their conveyance is no handsome carriage, but a rickety dog-cart, unmistakably betraying its neighbourship to the carts and ploughs of some rural farmyard.”

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