What is "elderhood"

Usage examples of "elderhood".

Council of the Elderhood receives reports of primitive spacecraft in flight between inner planets of the core-star.

But our first attacks had failed, and the Elderhood offered us refuge only on condition that we renounce violence.

Young in the Elderhood, they felt a kinship to these striving primitives, and they hoped to help bridge the cultural gulf.

Respecting the way of the Elderhood, we withhold our weapon and offer our aid.

Council of the Elderhood had received her own reports, she begged him to be patient.

Those promised gifts of the Elderhood were too strange and too far for him to grasp.

Greenvane went first to the clustered globes that held the deputations of the Elderhood, along with the varied life support facilities its diverse races required.

The Council of the Elderhood would no doubt be called into session to consider whether any action should be taken.

Most of them were more concerned, in fact, with their future in the Elderhood than with their tragic past.

We speak because your people and our own share the same danger, a greater danger than anything the Elderhood should fear from you.

Once, when she had stirred to tell him that she still heard nothing from her people in the Elderhood, nothing from anywhere, he spoke to her about their landing.

Its spirals were mirror-shielded iceballs, gathered into orbit by the member peoples of the Elderhood to hold their missions and legations.

Newlings were novices in the Elderhood, recent arrivals in Cluster One.

We are now asking you to take his place at the Council of the Elderhood, meeting in Cluster One, to be speakers for your species.

Perhaps I should remind you that every race in the Elderhood once was young.