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[syn: world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mankind \Man"kind`\, a.
Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel. [Obs]
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Are women grown so mankind? Must they be wooing?
--Beau. & Fl.
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Be not too mankind against your wife. --Chapman.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
mankind \man`kind"\, n. [AS. mancynn. See Kin kindred, Kind,
n.]
1. The human race; man, taken collectively.
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The proper study of mankind is man. --Pore.
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2. Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of
human race. --Lev. xviii. 22.
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3. Human feelings; humanity. [Obs] --B. Jonson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mankind
n 1: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the
world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because
`mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human
race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans,
mankind, man]