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Nationhood   /nˈeɪʃənhˌʊd/   Listen
Nationhood

noun
1.
The state of being a nation.





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"Nationhood" Quotes from Famous Books



... most countries, this entry gives the date that sovereignty was achieved and from which nation, empire, or trusteeship. For the other countries, the date given may not represent "independence" in the strict sense, but rather some significant nationhood event such as the traditional founding date or the date of unification, federation, confederation, establishment, fundamental change in the form of government, or state succession. Dependent areas include the notation "none" followed ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... black rot plague of the age"; but the fact remains—these colonists came in unselfish pursuit of ideals; and they gave of their blood and their brawn and all earthly possessions for those ideals; and it is of such stuff that the spirit of dauntless nationhood is made. Men who build temples of their lives for ideals do not cement national mortar with graft. They build with integrity for eternity, not time. Their consciousness of an ideal gives them a poise, a concentration, a stability, a steadiness of purpose, unknown to mad chasers ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut


Words linked to "Nationhood" :   state


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