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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
A fluid, voluntary relationship, varying greatly in duration and intensity, between persons well known to one another, which involves liking and affection, and may also involve mutual ...
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Paul Gilbert
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
Attachment characterized by disinterestedness and esteem. Aristotle contrasts friendship proper with relationships entered into for pleasure or advantage, ‘because in them the friend is ...
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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
The ancient ideal of friendship was known to the Middle Ages especially through Cicero's De amicitia (44
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
For medieval monks and clerics, friendship (amicitia) was defined on the basis of the Roman writer Cicero’s
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
A fundamental reality of human life and more specifically of Christian life, an expression of Love of God and neighbour,
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
An important ethical and social concept in the eighteenth century, inherited, discussed, and redesigned views from antiquity, Christianity, and the
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Glynis Carr
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
When the witty and sharp-eyed narrator of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929) turned from the fiction of the past to consider books written by women in this century, she was ...
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A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
The two extreme examples of friendship in the Bible are to be found in the story of David and Jonathan
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Alexander Kazhdan
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
(φιλία) was an important category of ancient ethics, praised in both myth and philosophy. The church fathers, although not rejecting ...
