brotherly love

1. 1.

   a kindly and lenient attitude toward people

   Synonymscharity

   Broaderbenevolencetheological virtue

Questions about brotherly love

What does brotherly love mean?

brotherly love means "a kindly and lenient attitude toward people".

What is another word for brotherly love?

Close synonyms include charity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brotherly love a common word?

brotherly love is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.