[SON sb.] The condition or relation of being a son.
1602. J. Davies (Heref.), Mirum in Modum, Wks. (Grosart), I. 17/1. Fatherhood, breathing, or Spiration, Son-hood, Procession.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. VII. iv. 208. A Royal Young Man; who … must not, in the name of sonhood, resist.
1889. Lux Mundi, App. I. 524. The ties which bind men in the relation of brotherhood and sonhood are the noblest.
