creaturehood

English

Etymology

From creature +‎ -hood.

Noun

creaturehood (uncountable)

1. The condition of being a creature; the realm of creatures.
   • 1922, J. G. H. Barry, Our Lady Saint Mary‎^[1]:

     Her will to sacrifice had the same limitless quality as her love; and because of the limitless quality of her self-giving her growth in the life of union was unlimited, or limited only by the limitations of creaturehood.

   • 1908, Grenville Kleiser, The world's great sermons, Volume 8‎^[2]:

     They thought that before them rose an eminence which the foot of creaturehood had never trodden; that from its height the adventurous climber would rival Deity in the sweep of his knowledge and the depth of his joy.