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peoplehood

/pee-puhl-hood/US // ˈpi pəlˌhʊd //

人民性,民族性,人格,民生

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or condition of being a people.
    • : the consciousness of certain beliefs or characteristics that make one part of a people; sense of belonging to a people.

Examples

  • Responding with alarm, they seek to buttress the idea of Jewish ethnicity qua Jewish peoplehood.

  • If Hartman came to teach about Peoplehood, Hanan Porat came to teach about Landhood.

  • Hartman came to Israel to reshape and rethink Jewish peoplehood, emphasizing modernity and its place in religion.

  • And as passionate universalists, the ANC Jews generally lacked the commitment to Jewish peoplehood that underlies Zionism.

  • Peoplehood is comforting, empowering, even intoxicating, which probably explains why Birthright works.