Friendship

Friend·ship

Friendship

n.
  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.
    There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
    — Rambler.
    Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency.
  2. Kindly aid; help; assistance, [Obs.]
    Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest.
  3. Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence. [Obs.]
    Those colors . . . have a friendship with each other.