[f. as prec. + -HOOD.] a. The condition of being under the influence of fairies; enchanted state. b. Fairy nature or characteristics. c. concr. Fairies collectively.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., V. May, 475. Sipping his coffee in the blessed unconsciousness of the fairyhood of his situation.
1842. Mrs. Browning, Grk. Chr. Poets (1863), 179. The ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ displays more of the fairyhood of fairies, than the ‘Paradise Lost’ does of the angelhood of angels.
1844. Blackw. Mag., LVI. July, 85. The downtrodden fairyhood.
