[f. SOLDIER sb. + -HOOD.] The essential qualities of a soldier or soldiery; the condition of being a soldier.
1846. H. W. Torrens, Rem. Milit. Hist., 314. A military power, which has passed from serfdom to national soldierhood.
1861. Macm. Mag., III. 325/2. It was hard, indeed, to be preeminent in discharge of duty or daring of danger amidst that flower of the world’s soldierhood.
1883. Pall Mall Gaz., 9 Oct., 5/1. He will have come face to face with an almost ideal incarnation of Russian soldierhood.
