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Neighborliness

noun
1.
A disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors.  Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighbourliness.






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"Neighborliness" Quotes from Famous Books



... here, just as I have, throughout your lives. It is for us to help each other in a neighborly spirit. Factories may close their doors, banks may fail, and credit be shaken, but so long as we may appeal to each other in the old terms of neighborliness and comradeship, nothing can seriously ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

... seems to like Mr. Harding. As we asked his fellow townsmen the reason for this affection, we were surprised that nearly all gave the same reason. They said: "We like him because he is genuine, frank, fair." "He is generous, considerate, and knows how to be a good neighbor." Indeed this spirit of neighborliness was shown clearly during the campaign preceding his election, when Mr. Harding decided to remain in Marion and meet his friends on the front porch of his own home. Because of this decision the Republican campaign of 1920 will long be known as "The Front Porch Campaign." To this front porch ...
— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford

... as the Siwash girl broadly indicated. Paul Abbey had grown into the habit of coming there rather more often than mere neighborliness called for, and it was palpable that he did not come to hold converse with Benton or Benton's gang, although he was "hail fellow" with all woodsmen. At first his coming might have been laid to any whim. Latterly Stella herself ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair



Words linked to "Neighborliness" :   friendliness, neighborly, unneighborliness



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