Guruhood

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or condition of a guru uncountable

    "According to Agehananda Bharati, the famous Tantric scholar, diksha forms the essence of guruhood: The notion of diksha provides us, as a semantic by-product so to speak, with a definition of a guru —[...]"

  2. 2
    Alternative form of guruhood. alt-of, alternative, uncountable

Example

More examples

"According to Agehananda Bharati, the famous Tantric scholar, diksha forms the essence of guruhood: The notion of diksha provides us, as a semantic by-product so to speak, with a definition of a guru —[...]"

Etymology

From guru + -hood.

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