nationhood
Noun
Meaning
the state of being a nation
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
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.
Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.
[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.
The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.