Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nationhood
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An interior from a Maryland farmhouse shows that with nationhood comes a fully developed appreciation of fine furniture and decorative pieces.
▪ It's international in that they see themselves above nationhood, beyond patriotism, and they want the war to end.
▪ It is that it has lost its nationhood.
▪ It seemed a poor candidate for nationhood.
▪ Maybe they also came to reaffirm a sense of nationhood barely a decade after the agony of civil war.
▪ Their commitment to nationhood had been forged long before.
▪ They tried to build nations; as they depart, so does the idea of nationhood.
▪ Yet postwar experience has shown that the formal foundations of the state were not the sinequanon of nationhood.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nationhood
1840, from nation + -hood.
Wiktionary
nationhood
n. 1 The quality of being a nation. 2 The fact of achieving national independence or autonomy.
Usage examples of "nationhood".
From the present limited perspective of Houyhnhnm nationhood, the major question is what the Houyhnhnm utopia implies about the nature of nations.
The victory at New Orleans, which made Americans feel like they had won the war, greatly strengthened the bonds of nationhood and made the economic and physical hardships seem worthwhile.
We must look to ourselves irrespectively of them and having found our own nationhood make it free.