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fairyhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From fairy + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or period of being a fairy.
    • The Taoists even set up quotas of merits for the attainment of fairyhood, as stated in the Taoist scripture, Pao P'u Tzu […] 1970, C. K. Yang, Religion in Chinese Society: A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors:
    • It is important to note that the primitiveness of the notion of fairyhood does not allow the stipulation that a particular object is a fairy, any more than the primitiveness of the notion of point allows the stipulation that a particular object is a point. 2018, Joan Weiner, Frege in Perspective, page 141: