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   Fellowship , n. [Fellow + -ship.]
   The state or relation of being or associate.
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   Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse.
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   In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
   Bacon.
   
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   Men are made for society and mutual fellowship.
   Calamy.
   
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   A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest.
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   The great contention of the sea and skies
   Parted our fellowship.
   Shak.
   
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   Fellowship in pain divides not smart
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   Milton.
   
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   Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage
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   Shak.
   
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   The goodliest fellowship of famous knights,
   Whereof this world holds record.
   Tennyson.
   
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   Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company.
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   The sorrow of Noah with his fellowship.
   Chaucer.
   
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   With that a joyous fellowship issued
   Of minstrels.
   Spenser.
   
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   (Eng. & Amer. Universities) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.
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   (Arith.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.
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   Good fellowship, companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades.
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   There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.
   Shak.
   
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   Fellowship , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fellowshiped ; p. pr. & vb. n.. Fellowshiping.] (Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.
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