Noun
the state of being a nation
Source: WordNetHuman rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. Jimmy Carter
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve. B. W. Powe
Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood. Cokie Roberts
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well. William Pfaff
[A]llegiance is the very essence of nationhood, there is no meaning in nationhood without allegiance. Nationhood means that a man stands to one nation, to one loyalty, against all others-that is what it is about. Enoch Powell
The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood. Joe Biden