The state, quality, or condition of being a groom; groomdom.
1899, THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES: FOURTH SERIES, VOL LXXII, 1899 - Page dccxxi:He need not reside in a room, but only in a bunk, and a bunk need not be rated for the relief of the poor. We talk about manhood suffrage, but what about groomhood suffrage?
1929, The Sleeping Car Conductor - Volumes 12-13 - Page 25:... and those women who are joined to them in marriage, long to see Brother Knechtel before the blush of groomhood wears off his cheerful countenance, ...
1985, Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - Volume 9, Issues 10-13 - Page 59:As he reverts to groomhood, there enters in haste Adolesco himself from the secret corridor, who still has barely presence of mind to thank his impersonator, and they might have got into a discussion of the gelding's off rear pastern problem, ...
1991, The Indian Journal of Social Work - Volume 52 - Page 205:Some social scientists (Altekar, 1962; Aziz, 1983; Srinivas, 1984) attribute the increasing prevalence of dowry to the concept of groomhood being drastically changed from the normal eligible bachelor to a fancy product.
2012, Avram Davidson, The Scarlet Fig:And besides, Vergil had already been some while ago made free of the Eleusinian bridehood and the groomhood, a mystagogue was he, of that and of other mysteries, perhaps lesser known, if not, who shall say: ...
