sonhoodn.
/ˈsʌnhʊd/, U.S. /ˈsənˌhʊd/ The state, condition, or fact of being a son.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > son > [noun] > position or relation of son
sonhoodc1475
sonship1482
sonage1597
c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 12 (MED) Resoun is a power, with which power mowe be knowe vnbodili þingis..as ben hefte and liȝtnes of bodies, fadirhode and sonehode, [etc.].
1587 H. Parry tr. Z. Ursinus Summe of Christian Relig. ii. 473 The word..was indeede alwaies in god, but it was not the sonne, but in respect of the filiation or Sonne-hoode which was to come in the wombe of the Virgine.
1675 W. Collins Missa Triumphans i. 26 Fatherhood only results from his act of Generation, and looks upon the filiation, or as one may say, sonhood, which was operated or exhibited, by a foregoing generative act.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. iv. 208 A Royal Young Man; who..must not, in the name of sonhood, resist.
1889 R. L. Ottley in C. Gore Lux Mundi App. 524 The ties which bind men in the relation of brotherhood and sonhood are the noblest.
1938 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 59 329 The central figure is endowed with both the opposite qualities, sonhood and fatherhood.
1976 Sunday Jrnl. & Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 19 Sept. h9/5 A gesture that moved Quintero to tears because he had had his own loveless sonhood.
2007 S.-M. Weineck in C. Liu et al. Dreams of Interpr. vii. 105 Unlike fatherhood, sonhood is not optional.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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