Meanings
- uncountableThe state of being a village.
It is, comparatively speaking, an old place, and was raised from villagehood to parochial rank by a Royal Letter of January 28th, 1752.
1869, Richard Francis Burton, Explorations of the highlands of the Brazil, page 3061 more example
We drive west into the Wallachian countryside, past rows of daub- and-wattle houses, plastered with a blue wash, clustered together along the road, aspiring to villagehood.
2004, Robin Peck, Sculpture, A Journey To The Circumference Of The Earth, page 34 - uncountableThe people and culture of a village.
They came to the school, and in due course formed part of the young villagehood.
1857, William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 24, page 761 more example
But the practice of villagehood still remains a constant through all of this, creating Miloli'i people as opposed to just islanders.
1995, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman, Jonathan Friedman, “Global Complexity and Everyday Life”, in Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local, page 162
Origin
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