sheepdom
nounEtymology From sheep + -dom.
1
The quality or state of being a sheep.
- 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.c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings:
- 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.1919, Caroline Lockhart, The Fighting Shepherdess: