statehoodn.
/ˈsteɪthʊd/, U.S. /ˈsteɪtˌhʊd/ The condition or status of being a political state. Originally with reference to the United States; cf. state n. 29a.
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statehood1805
1805 T. Paine Let. in Polit. & Misc. Wks (1819) II. 158 An officer appointed by the President..presided, as Governor of the Western Territory, over all such parts as have not arrived at the maturity of statehood.
1867 H. R. Helper Nojoque ix. 439 The designations of Statehood..are represented, in unprecedented variety. One Empire, five Kingdoms, eight Principalities, [etc.].
1881 J. Davis Rise & Fall Confed. Govt. I. 291 The comparative claims of Statehood and Union.
1906 Outlook 29 Dec. 819/1 That indiscriminate turmoil through which Russia has yet to fight her way to coherent statehood.
1948 Life 14 July 35/1 For years Hawaii's quest for statehood had been linked with Alaska's.
1971 I. Deutscher Marxism in our Time (1972) v. 99 In a vast part of the continent a struggle was indeed going on for the achievement of independent statehood and nationhood.
2000 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon iv. 73 People forget that the Vatican is a nation-state in its own right and has the usual trappings of statehood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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