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soldier-like

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Adjective

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soldier-like (comparative more soldier-like, superlative most soldier-like)

  1. Alternative form of soldierlike.
    • 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XII. The history of Lord Nelville.] Chap[ter] I.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. [], volume III, London: [] Corri, []; and sold by Colburn, [], and Mackenzie, [], →OCLC, page 145:
      Such was the amiable Frenchman for whom I felt that perfect friendship, that soldier-like fraternity, which we are only capable of in our youth, before we are alive to feelings of rivalship, before irrevocable courses, furrow and divide the field of futurity.
    • 1885, G[eorge] A[lfred] Henty, “At Home at Last”, in For Name and Fame or Through Afghan Passes, London: Blackie & Son, Limited, [], page 349:
      She curtsied at seeing two tall soldier-like gentlemen before her.
    • 2003, Rachel Wyatt, Time’s Reach, Lantzville, B.C.: Oolichan Books, →ISBN, page 159:
      Jason’s dad, unlike his own, was a soldier-like man, precise, on time, sharp-eyed.