Boroughhood

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being a borough uncountable

    "In the days of its close boroughhood, it had owned but one mind, and that a little one ; it had now a thousand ; and each, in its own conceit, gigantic."

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"In the days of its close boroughhood, it had owned but one mind, and that a little one ; it had now a thousand ; and each, in its own conceit, gigantic."

Etymology

From borough + -hood.

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