Etymology
Origin of peoplehood
Example Sentences
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These principles obliged Bundists to cling, defiantly and then desperately, to limited peoplehood as a minority among hostile neighbors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
“But it is a place where we foster a sense of our peoplehood, our heritage and national identity,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2022
Ever since Abraham, circumcision has been the initiation rite of healthy baby boys into the people of Israel’s faith, practice and peoplehood.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 12, 2018
It scrupulously avoided differentiating between the practice of Judaism as a religion and the enactment of Jewishness as ethnicity or peoplehood.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2017
When they say equality, they mean sameness, which is to say: conforming to some ideal of Middle America, Little England, or whatever a symbolic representation of real peoplehood comes down to for them.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 2, 2016
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