soldierhoodn.
The essential qualities of a soldier or soldiery; the condition of being a soldier.
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1846 H. W. Torrens Remarks Uses Mil. Hist. 314 A military power, which has passed from serfdom to national soldierhood.
1861 Macmillan's Mag. 3 325 It was hard indeed to be pre-eminent..amidst that flower of soldierhood.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Oct. 5/1 He will have come face to face with an almost ideal incarnation of Russian soldierhood.
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