different between nunhood vs unhood

English

Etymology

nun +? -hood

Noun

nunhood (countable and uncountable, plural nunhoods)

1. The status or condition of being a nun.
   • 2005, Judith Arnold, The Fixer Upper, Mira (2005), ?ISBN, page 337:

     "She's Jewish," Harry muttered. "Nunhood is out of the question."

2. Nuns as a group.
   • 2007, William E. Deal, Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan, Oxford University Press (2007), ?ISBN, page 43:

     She entered the nunhood after her husband's death and became a well-respected tutor of high-ranking noblemen and noblewomen.

Quotations

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English

Etymology

From un- +? hood.

Verb

unhood (third-person singular simple present unhoods, present participle unhooding, simple past and past participle unhooded)

1. (transitive) To remove the hood from.

   Antonym: hood

   • 2002, Stephen Stuebner, Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson's Life with Birds of Prey (p.109)

     He unhooded the falcon, and she snapped her brown and white head around, sizing up the surroundings.