Definition of Fatherhoods

1. fatherhood [n] - See also: fatherhood

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatherhoods

father figure
father figures
father in law
father lasher
father lashers
father longlegs
father of chapel
father surrogate
fatherdom
fathered
fatherer
fatherers
fatherhood
fatherhoods (current term)
fathering
fatherland
fatherlands
fatherlasher
fatherlashers
fatherless
fatherlessness
fatherlike
fatherliness
fatherlinesses
fatherly
fathers
fathers-in-law
fathers-to-be

Literary usage of Fatherhoods

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: Printed from by Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, George Colman, Peter Whalley (1811)
"3. Appear yet those were cited ? Not. All but the old magnifico, Volpone. Avoc. I. Why is not he here? Mia. Please your fatherhoods, Here is his advocate ..."

2. The Oceana by James Harrington, John Toland, John Hall (1747)
"And to com to your fatherhoods, moil truly fo call'd, as being the loving Parents of the People, truly you do not know what a feeling they have of your ..."

3. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"I know not which t' address myself to first ; Whether your fatherhoods, ... Please your fatherhoods. Cora. He does speak This is the truth, though I '11 not ..."

4. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1864)
"all the fatherhoods or kindreds of the earth shall be blessed. ... fatherhoods, and because it shall be derived sometimes by succession of birth, ..."

5. The Modern British Drama: In Five Volumes by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1811)
"I do beseech your fatherhoods, read but writ; It cannot be, ... May't please your fatherhoods— Volp. Sir, the parasite Will'd me to tell you. that his ..."

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