unsisterliness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From unsisterly + -ness.
Noun
[edit]unsisterliness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being unsisterly.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- Don’t let me be surprised at your seeming unsisterliness, Bella. I hope it is but seeming. There can be no wit in such jesting as this.
- 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, Chapter IV. Legends,[1]
- Never did four walls look down upon an uglier spectacle than these sisters rivalling in unsisterliness.
- 1926, Abbie Graham, Grace H. Dodge, Merchant of Dreams, New York: The Womans Press, Chapter 5, pp. 105-106,[2]
- There must have been a great deal of patronage towards these working girls, especially among groups of older women, or else Grace Dodge would not have so frequently warned women against the unsisterliness of patronage.