nunhoodn.
/ˈnʌnhʊd/, U.S. /ˈnənˌ(h)ʊd/ The state or vocation of being a nun; life as a nun.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] > condition of being
nunnerya1350
sisterheada1393
nunryc1450
sistership1535
sisterhood?1540
nunnishness1570
nunship1624
the veil1791
nunhooda1834
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 69 She at length resolved on nunhood because she thought it could not be much worse than Purgatory.
1866 ‘M. Harland’ Sunnybank xviii. 235 I have resolved to form my infant sister into a faint copy of what I once was, and set her in the niche left empty by my voluntary nunhood.
1890 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Dec. 261 Her fifty-two years' nunhood.
1928 J. Masefield Death of Lancelot 148 No vows could check me at that dying cry, I cast my abbess-ship and nunhood by.
1994 Jrnl. Japanese Stud. 20 499 In the medieval period nunhood offered women revolutionary freedom by which they could achieve independence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.a1834