[f. ANGEL + -HOOD.]
1. The state or condition of an angel.
1839. Bailey, Festus, xix. (1848), 215. That all might in Him Be one; and full and holy equalness Belong humanity as angelhood.
1858. Mrs. Craik, Woman’s Th. about Women, 35. For the sake of ‘woman-hede,’ the most heavenly thing next angelhood.
2. Angelic nature embodied; an angelic being; collect. a company or brotherhood of angels.
1850. Mrs. Browning, Poems, I. 7. ’Twas then I knew How ye could pity, my kind angelhood! Ibid. (1862), Last Poems, 30. English children pass in bloom … Such rose angelhoods, emplumed In such ringlets of pure glory.
