riverhoodn.
/ˈrɪvəhʊd/, U.S. /ˈrɪvərˌ(h)ʊd/ The state of being a river.
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1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 49 302 Expanding into the..ambitious promise of the youthful river; and anon, swelling forth in the stately majesty of full-grown riverhood.
1872 ‘Casca Llanna’ Love, Woman, Marriage (ed. 4) 884 A bubbling, gurgling, pebble-washing brook, ambitious of the honors and the powers of riverhood, which anon it achieves.
1896 R. D. Blackmore Tales from Telling-house 204 The power to work a good undershot wheel,..leaving a tidy back-stream to spare at the bottom of the orchard, is a fair certificate of riverhood.
1975 Philos. Q. 25 274 To point at the river is to point also at its stages (to say nothing of riverhood in general).
1997 R. O. Vos in S. Kamieniecki et al. Flashpoints in Environm. Policymaking 17 The subjectivity of the natural entity is derived from its identity—for example the ‘riverhood’ of a river.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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