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peoplehood

[ pee-puhl-hood ]

noun

  1. the state or condition of being a people. person.
  2. the consciousness of certain beliefs or characteristics that make one part of a people; person; sense of belonging to a people. person.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of peoplehood1

First recorded in 1905–10; people + -hood

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Example Sentences

Responding with alarm, they seek to buttress the idea of Jewish ethnicity qua Jewish peoplehood.

If Hartman came to teach about Peoplehood, Hanan Porat came to teach about Landhood.

Hartman came to Israel to reshape and rethink Jewish peoplehood, emphasizing modernity and its place in religion.

And as passionate universalists, the ANC Jews generally lacked the commitment to Jewish peoplehood that underlies Zionism.

Peoplehood is comforting, empowering, even intoxicating, which probably explains why Birthright works.

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