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ravenhood

ravenhood noun: the property of being a raven.

Noun

ravenhood (uncountable)

  1. The property of being a raven.
    • So a law of nature which said, say, that Ravenhood is causally linked with blackness would entail both All ravens are black and All non-black things are non-ravens, but would not entail a law linking non-blackness with non-ravenhood.1988, Keith John Cooper, The use of scientific method in assessing religious conceptual systems, volume 2, page 280
    • If this could be shown, the above statement would be systematically related to other statements about ravenhood in particular and the genetics of feathered creatures in general.1995, Friedel Weinert, Laws of Nature, page 23

Origin of ravenhood

From raven + -hood.

Questions about ravenhood

What does ravenhood mean?
Ravenhood means the property of being a raven.
What part of speech is ravenhood?
Ravenhood is a noun.

Words near ravenhood in the dictionary

  1. Ravenglass
  2. Ravenhall
  3. Ravenhead
  4. Ravenhill
  5. Ravenhills
  6. ravenhood
  7. ravening
  8. Raveningham
  9. raveningly
  10. ravenings
  11. ravenish

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