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sheepdom en · NOUN

Etymology

From sheep + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being a sheep.
    • In the shape of a wedge with a leader at the point of it, they were running with a definite purpose and as though all the dogs in sheepdom were heeling them. 1919, Caroline Lockhart, The Fighting Shepherdess:
    • Harry sat between them, like a sheep as he was, very meekly--not without some enjoyment of his sheepdom, but still feeling that he was a sheep. c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings: