Citations:nunhood

Noun: "the status or condition of being a nun"

 * 1996 — Jo Ann Kay McNamara, Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia, Harvard University Press (1996), ISBN 067480984X, pages 450-451:
 * Despite this story of failure and loss, the honor of nunhood never gleamed more brightly than in those hours when their cloisters were broken and their habits stripped from them.
 * 2000 — Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles, Vintage International (2001), ISBN 9780307787804, unnumbered page:
 * Nunhood, the convent and the vows were things that would speak to her for the rest of her life.
 * 2001 — Edith Sarra, "Towazugatari: Unruly Tales from a Dutiful Daughter", in The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father (eds. Rebecca L. Copeland & Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen), University of Hawai'i Press (2001), ISBN 0824821726, page 95:
 * Arguing against the received view of Nijō's nunhood as a willful, positive choice, Imazeki question's Nijō's freedom of choice at all, her view being that Nijo intentionally presented her nunhood as a long-sought-after alternative in order to put a better face on events that were in fact out of her control.
 * 2004 — James C. Dobbins, Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan, University of Hawai'i Press (2004), ISBN 0824826671, page 84:
 * Nunhood had profound social ramifications for medieval women.
 * 2005 — Judith Arnold, The Fixer Upper, Mira (2005), ISBN 0778321932, page 337:
 * "She's Jewish," Harry muttered. "Nunhood is out of the question."
 * 2005 — Charlene E. Makley, "The Body of a Nun: Nunhood and Gender in Contemporary Amdo", in Women in Tibet (eds. Janet Gyatso & Hanna Havnevik), Columbia University Press (2005), ISBN 0231130988, page 261:
 * In fact, the contestations articulated in gossip about nuns were inseparable from those transpiring everyday in the bodily performance of nunhood.
 * 2006 — Karen Cushman, The Loud Silence of Francine Green, Clarion Books (2006), ISBN 9780618504558, page 108:
 * They visited eighth-grade classes all over Los Angeles every year to share with us the joys of nunhood, joys so great we would want to be like them — living together all their lives, never getting married or having babies, singing and praying and working in eternal poverty, chastity, and obedience.
 * 2009 — Sonja Livingston, Ghostbread, University of Georgia Press (2009), ISBN 9780820336879, page 219:
 * I considered nunhood. But while social activism had its appeal, I knew I was not cut out for such selflessness, at least not willingly.
 * 2009 — Mary Whitney Kelting, Heroic Wives: Rituals, Stories, and the Virtues of Jain Wifehood, Oxford University Press (2009), ISBN 9780195389647, page 155:
 * To illustrate my point, this discussion will now turn to contexts in which young unmarried Jain women embody ideologies of renunciation as an exploration of the possibility of nunhood.
 * 2011 — Melissa Darnell, Crave, Harlequin Teen (2011), ISBN 9780373210350, page 218:
 * Since no one had locked me up yet, the next best thing I could do was aim for nunhood.

Noun: "nuns as a group"

 * 1983 — Michael Malone, Handling Sin, Sourcebooks, Inc. (2004), ISBN 9781570717567, page 186:
 * "It's like in The Nun's Story. When Audrey Hepburn was getting initiated, she couldn't even talk to her best friend and she had to lie on a stone floor all night. Finally, she just got married instead, or became a scientist, I forget which. I guess getting into the nunhood is about as hard as pro football."
 * 2002 — Lucinda Joy Peach, Women and World Religions, Prentice Hall (2002), ISBN 9780130404442, page 91:
 * Many young nuns said they entered the nunhood because their parents could not afford to send them to pursue higher education.
 * 2004 — Harley Jane Kozak, Dating Dead Men, Broadway Books (2004), ISBN 0767921232, page 121:
 * Once I had that, I'd join the nunhood, some nice order that still wore habits and didn't require dating.
 * 2005 — 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.
 * 2007 — Monica Lindberg Falk, Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand, NIAS Press (2007), ISBN 9788791114656, page 242:
 * She had a diploma in business studies from Australia and before she entered the nunhood had worked as a secretary and translator.
 * 2011 — Louise Tythacott, The Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism, and Display, Berghahn Books (2011), ISBN 9780857452382, page 24:
 * When she asked her father's permission to be ordained into the nunhood, he flew into a rage, ordering her to kill herself with a sword.