ˌfellow-ˈcreature
[fellow n. 11 a, c.]
A production of the same Creator; now applied only to human beings and (less frequently) animals.
| a 1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1886) 57 All herbs and plants, being our fellow-creatures. 1682 Otway Venice Preserved i. i, A..villain: To see the sufferings of my fellow-creatures, And own myself a man. 1729 Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 51 A good man is friendly to his fellow-creatures, and a lover of mankind. 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1865) 61 Virtue would not be virtue, could it be given by one fellow⁓creature to another. 1878 Browning La Saisiaz 48 Yon worm, man's fellow-creature. |