nationhoodn.
/ˈneɪʃnhʊd/, U.S. /ˈneɪʃənˌ(h)ʊd/ The state or fact of being a nation; national independence or autonomy; national, ethnic, or cultural identity.
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nationhood1843
1843 T. O. Davis West's Asleep in Spirit of Nation ii. 19 That chainless wave and lovely land Freedom and Nationhood demand.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets i. 23 New elements of polity or nationhood.
1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism II. 32 A bond of unity that is superior to the divisions of nationhood.
1885 C. S. Parnell in Times 2 Sept. 6/3 Our right to nationhood to-day is practically undisputed.
1912 Q. Rev. Jan. 296 The financial system of the Union under which Ireland has her equal place as a sister-nation is to be broken up under the pretence of gratifying a demand for nationhood.
1944 N. Mandela Struggle is my Life (1978) ii. i. 11 The contact of the White race with the Black has resulted in the emergence of a set of conflicting living conditions and outlooks on life which seriously hamper South Africa's progress to nationhood.
1973 S. Henderson Understanding New Black Poetry 56 It is a dance for righteousness and nationhood that transforms Beaulah..to the Mother of the Black nation reborn.
2000 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 105 1444 Like the Exodus saga, the Batavian narrative assumed, at least implicitly, that political sovereignty was a precondition of true nationhood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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