fairyhood

[ fair-ee-hood ]

noun

1. a fairy nature or state:

   the fairyhood of Puck.

2. fairies collectively.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fairyhood¹

First recorded in 1825–35; fairy + -hood

Example Sentences

I could see that the two of them were losing faith in my godmaternal fairyhood.

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Meantime she writes to a friend that “the ‘elf’ is flourishing in all good fairyhood, with a scarlet rose leaf on each cheek.”

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In this gorgeous saloon, at the head of which sat, well pleased, the benevolent old King Paterflor and his modest and still lovely queen Sweetbine, all were noble and accomplished and beautiful and gay; but the charms of the Princess Dewbell, just bursting into the richness of full-grown fairyhood, were so surpassing that none had ever been found to question, even in their own hearts, her supremacy.

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The 'elf' is flourishing in all good fairyhood, with a scarlet rose leaf on each cheek.

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That other, which he displays, with mock emphasis, of restitution to the downtrodden fairyhood, is an exotic, fair and slight bud, grafted into the sturdier indigenous stock.

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