[f. as prec. + -HOOD.] The rank or dignity of a queen; queenly estate.
1859. Tennyson, Enid, 176. She … with all grace Of womanhood and Queenhood, answered him.
1885. Mrs. Lynn Linton, in Fortn. Rev., Nov., 629. Her queenhood was not real.
1894. Ralph, in Harper’s Mag., Aug., 338. Thousands of tiny flowers, over which the wood-violet, the strawberry, and the arbutus struggle for queenhood.
