[f. SOLDIER sb.] The quality or nature of a soldier.
1851. Daily News, 1 Nov., 4/1. A great and popular league of constitutionalism and citizenship, against the absolutism and soldierdom of the west. Ibid. (1870), 27 Sept. Men whose soldierdom is neither spontaneous nor mercenary.
1888. E. Fairfax Byrnne, in Our Corner, XI. 1 Feb., 68. At the base is soldierdom, pure and simple, the merely dominant and fighting man.
