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  • noun The state of being a warrior.

Etymologies

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warrior +‎ -hood

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Examples

  • The turn of the millennium may have marked the death rattle of American warriorhood, an obsolete form of manhood that has undermined the very basis of patriarchy.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • The turn of the millennium may have marked the death rattle of American warriorhood, an obsolete form of manhood that has undermined the very basis of patriarchy.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • The turn of the millennium may have marked the death rattle of American warriorhood, an obsolete form of manhood that has undermined the very basis of patriarchy.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • Trouble is, the contemporary world has no room for that old spear-chucker warriorhood.

    Peter Clothier: OJ Simpson and Masculine Energy 2009

  • Vachss is out in the beyond somewhere, and he's earned the right, through a lifetime of very real and committed warriorhood, protecting the most vulnerable members of our society, to paint pictures of a moral hell so deep that the light of day rarely shines.

    Seven Secrets Steven Barnes 2007

  • Vachss is out in the beyond somewhere, and he's earned the right, through a lifetime of very real and committed warriorhood, protecting the most vulnerable members of our society, to paint pictures of a moral hell so deep that the light of day rarely shines.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Steven Barnes 2007

  • When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warriorhood, you want to be there.

    Meet The Amazing Buck Sargent membrain 2006

  • When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warriorhood, you want to be there.

    Archive 2006-04-01 membrain 2006

  • Other Eesa clans assert their warriorhood by small disks of white stone, fashioned like rings, and fitted upon the little finger of the left hand.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • They actually subjugated and put in chains, like the commonest peasants, native [196] potentates at whose very names even the warriorhood of their tribes had been wont to blench.

    West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

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