[f. as prec. + -HOOD.] The state of being a citizen; also concretely, the body of citizens.
1844. Mrs. Gore, Birthright, etc. II. 277. Law, physic, and taxation, affix their vampire claws into the citizenhood of this enlightened metropolis.
1871. Daily News, 15 March, 6/1. What seems to me to be the real feeling of German citizenhood as regards the alleged aggressive tendency of Germany. Ibid. They were citizens made soldiers by force of circumstances and longing to return to their citizenhood.
