[f. APE sb. + -HOOD.] The condition or nature of an ape.

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1825.  R. Ayton, Ess. & Sk. Char., 89. A handful of nuts brought out, in a moment, [discovers] the inalienable ape-hood of the monkey-players.

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1839.  Carlyle, Chartism, iv. (1858), 18. He too may be ignorant; but he has not sunk from decent manhood to squalid apehood.

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