[f. BEAST sb. + -HOOD.] The rank, condition, or nature of beasts.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. I. vii. 61. Many a Circe Island, with temporary … conversion into beasthood and hoghood.

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1851.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 25. Instinct with all the elements of manhood and beasthood.

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1868.  Browning, Ring & Bk., VIII. 510. Beasts … Do credit to their beasthood.

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