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whole brother
noun
- a brother whose parents are the same as one's own.
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of whole brother1
Example Sentences
Failing a son, a Hinduās obsequies may be performed by his widow; or in default of her, by a whole brother or other heirs; but according to the conception belonging to the subject, not with the same benefit as by a son.
His first act was to take the duchy of Bavaria from Henry, and bestow it on Leopold, the Marquis of Austria, his own half-brother, and whole brother to Bishop Otto, the historian.
There is something pathetic here which tempts one to dream that, if Edmund had been whole brother to Edgar, and had been at home during those 'nine years' when he was 'out,' he might have been a very different man.
Blanche thought it rather silly and tiresome of Ishmael to keep on at it; surely he could leave that clumsy brother of hisāfor the first time the realisation that John-James actually was whole brother to Ishmael flashed into her mindāand wander away somewhere with her!
The Prince of Leiningenāthe Queen's half- brother in blood, but whole brother in heartādied, to her great grief; and soon after there passed away her beloved aunt, the Duchess of Gloucester, a good and amiable woman, and the last of the fifteen children of George the Third and Queen Charlotte.
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