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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.
[man and kind.] This word admits the accent either on the first or second syllable; the distinction of accent being inconsiderable.]
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.
Resembling man in form, not woman.

Definition 2024


Mankind

Mankind

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English

Proper noun

Mankind

  1. (quranic) The 114th sura (chapter) of the Quran

mankind

mankind

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English

Noun

mankind (uncountable)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.”
  3. (obsolete) Human feelings; humanity.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Synonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:humankind

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External links

  • mankind in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • mankind in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911