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Nunhood vs Unhood - What's the difference?

nunhood | unhood |

As a noun nunhood

is the status or condition of being a nun.

As a verb unhood is

to remove the hood from.

nunhood

English

Noun

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  • The status or condition of being a nun.
  • * 2005 , , The Fixer Upper , Mira (2005), ISBN 0778321932, page 337:
    • "She's Jewish," Harry muttered. "Nunhood is out of the question."
  • Nuns as a group.
  • * 2007 , William E. Deal, Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan , Oxford University Press (2007), ISBN 9780195331264, page 43:
    • She entered the nunhood after her husband's death and became a well-respected tutor of high-ranking noblemen and noblewomen.

    Quotations

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    unhood

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the hood from.
  • *, II.12:
    • there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard, and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes.
  • * 2002 , Stephen Stuebner, Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson's Life with Birds of Prey (p.109)
  • *:He unhooded the falcon, and she snapped her brown and white head around, sizing up the surroundings.