[f. CHRIST + -HOOD.] State or condition of being Christ; Messiahship.
a. 1400[?]. Chester Pl. (1847), II. 33. Thy Christhoode we muste knowe.
1689. Foxes & Firebr., III. 208. That the Unction which the Saints are said to receive from the Holy One … is one with the Christ-hood of Christ.
1828. E. Irving, Last Days, 114. His Christhood, as the anointed with the Holy Spirit.
1881. Fairbairn, Stud. Life Christ, ix. 187. The reality of his Christhood.
