Jewhoodn.
/ˈdʒuːhʊd/, U.S. /ˈdʒuˌ(h)ʊd/ Somewhat rare.
The state or condition of being Jewish; Jewishness.
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Jewheada1400
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Jewhood1847
Jewdom1850
the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > state of being
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1847 T. Carlyle Let. 31 Aug. in Corr. T. Carlyle & R. W. Emerson (1894) II. 170 A peeling off of fetid Jewhood in every sense from myself and my poor bewildered brethren.
1975 P. Roth Reading Myself & Others 230 Saul Bellow's longer works tend generally to associate the Jewish Jew with the struggles of ethical Jewhood.
2018 Independent (Nexis) 14 July (First ed.) 97 Daniel's unfolding from the larval stage of his English gentility to the final state of his Jewhood is something I can empathise with.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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