Sis"ter*hood (?), n. [Sister + hood.]
1.
The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.
She . . . abhorr'd
Her proper blood, and left to do the part
Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife.
Daniel.
2.
A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively.
"A
sisterhood of holy nuns."
Shak.
The fair young flowers . . . a beauteous sisterhood.
Bryant.
© Webster 1913.