fellow-creature

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FELLOW-CRE'ATURE, noun One of the same race or kind. Thus men are all called fellow-creatures. Watts uses the word for one made by the same creator. 'Reason by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes.' But the word is not now used in this sense.
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