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Webster 1913 Edition
Mankind
Man′kindˊ
,Adj.
Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel.
[Obs]
Are women grown so
mankind
? Must they be wooing? Beau. & Fl.
Be not too
mankind
against your wife. Chapman.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mankind
MANKIND
,Noun.
1.
The race or species of human beings. The proper study of mankind is man.
2.
A male, or the males of the human race. Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. Lev.18.
MANKIND
,Adj.
Definition 2024
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See also: Mankind
English
Noun
mankind (uncountable)
- The human race in its entirety.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
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- Men collectively, as opposed to all women.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bible, Leviticus xviii. 22 to this entry?)
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
- “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
- (obsolete) Human feelings; humanity.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:humankind
Antonyms
- (all men): womankind
Derived terms
Translations
human race
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man as opposed to woman