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Word Meanings - ALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope. 2. To connect or form

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1. To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope. 2. To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied. Spenser. The virtue nearest to our vice allied. Pope. Note: Ally is generally used in the passive form or reflexively.

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  • ASSISTANTLY
    In a manner to give aid.
  • FRIENDLINESS
    The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
  • INSTIGATOR
    One who instigates or incites. Burke.
  • FRIENDED
    1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
  • COMPANIONLESS
    Without a companion.
  • CONSORTSHIP
    The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
  • CONSORT
    A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest,
  • ADVOCATE
    advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
  • ENCOURAGER
    One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
  • PARTNER
    An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership. 3. pl. (more info) 1. One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: A husband or
  • ACCOMPLICESHIP
    The state of being an accomplice. Sir H. Taylor.
  • ASSOCIATE
    1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought.
  • ADVISER
    One who advises.
  • FRIENDSHIP
    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
  • CONSORTABLE
    Suitable for association or companionship. Sir H. Wotton.
  • COLLEAGUE
    A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures. Syn. -- Helper; assistant; coadjutor; ally; associate; companion; confederate. (more info) time with another, a
  • FRIENDLY
    1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
  • FRIEND
    freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij friend, frij to love. sq. root83. See Free, 1. One who entertains for another
  • PARTNERSHIP
    A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on
  • COADJUTOR
    The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice. (more info) 1. One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.
  • UNFRIEND
    One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
  • BEFRIEND
    To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.
  • UNAVOIDED
    1. Not avoided or shunned. Shak. 2. Unavoidable; inevitable. B. Jonson.
  • REBANISH
    To banish again.
  • BACKFRIEND
    A secret enemy. South.

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