• Enemyhood

    Origin

    From enemy + -hood.

    Full definition of enemyhood

    Noun

    enemyhood

    (usually uncountable; plural enemyhoods)
    1. The state, condition, or quality of being an enemy; enmity; enemyship.
      • 2003, Alex Argenti-Pillen, Masking Terror:In order to further reconstruct the local history of violence and enemyhood, I now turn to one of these other neighborhoods in the Udahenagama area.
      • 2005, Stefano Guzzini, Anna Leander, Constructivism and International Relations:So Wendt's contention can be restated as follows: no state identity of enemyhood without the Hobbesian international culture and no Hobbesian international culture without the state identity of enemyhood, logically.
      • 2006, M. A. Foster, The Book of The Ler:And there are many other things; we tell tales to one another, sing, dance. Cultivate friendships, and enemyhoods, too.

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