Definition of Friendship

Friend´ship
n.1.The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.
There is little friendship in the world.
- Bacon.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
- Rambler.
Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency.
- Spenser.
2.Kindly aid; help; assistance,
Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest.
- Shak.
3.Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence.
Those colors . . . have a friendship with each other.
- Dryden.


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