bookhoodn.
/ˈbʊkhʊd/, U.S. /ˈbʊkˌhʊd/ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [noun] > book-learning, letters
craftOE
book loreOE
lettersa1250
letter1340
lettrurec1400
literaturec1450
reading?1548
book learning1553
book skill1553
book knowledge1613
bookcrafta1637
scholarship1644
clerkship1648
letter-learning1668
bookhood1772
clerk-learning1865
literacy1880
1772 H. Walpole Corr. (1837) III. 46 Who has a better opinion of my bookhood than I deserve.
2. Publication in book form; the state or condition of being a book.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > book > [noun] > condition of being
bookhood1854
1854 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 272 A young poet of England, just emerging from the newspaper state of pupillage into bookhood.
1881 Southern Law Rev. (St. Louis) VII. 289 This book dares to assert its bookhood independent of dress.
1902 Metallographist Jan. 55 We tear the covers off a book and it remains a book..because bookhood is not essentially dependent upon external form.
2009 J. Fisher & A. Shay When Men Dance p. viii We offer thanks..for the intelligent and gracious shepherding of this manuscript into bookhood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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