[f. LION + -HOOD.] The state or condition of being a ‘lion.’
1833. Whewell, in Mrs. S. Douglas, Life, iv. (1881), 153. But she [Miss Martineau] is a remarkable person. She is now enjoying the honours of her lionhood in London.
1845. Lowell, Lett. (1894), I. 111. Do not understand me as exaggerating the miseries which my lionhood entails on me.
