ghosthoodn.

1842 C. G. F. Gore Cossack's Grave i, in Fascination III. 11 Men only are entitled to the honours of ghosthood, without including quadrupeds in the airy distinction.

1889 Daily News 12 Dec. 5/3 It is difficult for a ghost to become a man, because it has fallen to ghosthood, and because it has lost manhood.

1938 Daily Mercury (Mackay, Queensland) 11 Mar. 2/5 I have that peculiar and often extremely useful capacity of assuming a nebulous form at will. That is one of the undeniable advantages of ghosthood.

2017 Bristol Post (Nexis) 3 Jan. 8 I got online to see if I could trace any female Groveses who might qualify for ghosthood—murder victims or suicides, say.

1856 J. D. Devlin Contract Reform 3 Considered in connexion with the pay [for shaving the paupers], a farthing a chin, or ‘four-e-penny all round!’ a remuneration which cannot but harrow on the hearing of the ghosthood of barbers of the by-gone better times.

1884 Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 651/1 How long are we to wait for Ghosthood Suffrage and Haunted Electoral Districts?

1894 Longman's Mag. Jan. 323 Till we have Ghosthood Suffrage, and an organised Independent Spectre Party, these poor fugitive fellow-creatures of ours will never get fair treatment.