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Definition of Stepbrothers
1. stepbrother [n] - See also: stepbrother
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stepbrothers
Literary usage of Stepbrothers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of an History of the Hindu Law of Partition, Inheritance, and by Julius Jolly (1885)
"Whether stepbrothers have any claim to the inheritance according to the leading
Smriti-text, depends entirely on the question as to which is the best of the ..."
2. Outlines of an History of the Hindu Law of Partition, Inheritance, and by Julius Jolly (1885)
"Whether stepbrothers have any claim to the inheritance according to the leading
Smriti-text, depends entirely on the question as to which is the best of the ..."
3. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"Children, who have only one common parent, are stepbrothers and STEPSISTERS to
each other. They are said to be HALFBLOOD, and are also termed HALF- BROTHERS ..."
4. Aischylou Iketides =: The "Supplices" of Aeschylus by Aeschylus, Thomas George Tucker (1889)
"... are eminently appropriate to the hostility of stepbrothers living in the same
house. Earth has a second brood of children in the shape of evil beasts, ..."
5. A Digest of the Hindu Law of Inheritance and Partition: From the Replies of by Georg Bühler, Raymond West (1878)
"Since the death of the father the elder son has joined the family, and assuming
the guardianship of his stepbrothers, has got them married. ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He was never married, and the name is said to be extinct, save as borne by the
descendants of his stepbrothers called Satori-Canova. ..."