[f. BRUTE sb.1 + -HOOD.] The condition or rank of brutes.
1852. Fraser’s Mag., XLVI. 238. All the difference that exists … between manhood and brutehood.
1872. H. Cowles, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xcii. 6. One … who has debased himself to brutehood.
