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  • noun The quality or state of being a sheep.

Etymologies

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sheep +‎ -dom

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Examples

  • One takeaway, IMHO, is that we're pretty far down the road to sheepdom when average citizens start thinking "well, everything's monitored all the time anyway - let's see if I can make use of that."

    Boing Boing: August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Now, you'd think he'd get used to that after the first week or so of sheepdom, but he never did.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006

  • Now, you'd think he'd get used to that after the first week or so of sheepdom, but he never did.

    BOB! Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006

  • Harry sat between them, like a sheep as he was, very meekly — not without some enjoyment of his sheepdom, but still feeling that he was a sheep.

    The Claverings 2005

  • In the shape of a wedge with a leader at the point of it, they were running with a definite purpose and as though all the dogs in sheepdom were heeling them.

    The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • Harry sat between them, like a sheep as he was, very meekly -- not without some enjoyment of his sheepdom, but still feeling that he was a sheep.

    The Claverings Anthony Trollope 1848

  • The great enemy of sheepdom had ceased to breathe.

    Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. 1835

  • Is there no limit to the number of lies you delusional people tell yourselves to rationalize your racism, party sheepdom and, extreme hypocrisy, wingers?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • Is there no limit to the number of lies you delusional people tell yourselves to rationalize your racism, party sheepdom and, extreme hypocrisy, wingers?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • Is there no limit to the number of lies you delusional people tell yourselves to rationalize your racism, party sheepdom and, extreme hypocrisy, wingers?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories Mutainia 2010

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