Lexic.us

Definition of Mankind

1. Noun. All of the living human inhabitants of the earth. "She always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"

Definition of Mankind

1. n. The human race; man, taken collectively.

2. a. Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel.

Definition of Mankind

1. Noun. The human race in its entirety. ¹

2. Noun. All male men as opposed to all women. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mankind

1. the human race [n MANKIND]

Medical Definition of Mankind

1. 1. The human race; man, taken collectively. "The proper study of mankind is man." (Pore) 2. Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race. 3. Human feelings; humanity. Origin: AS. Mancynn. See Kin kindred, Kind. Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel. "Are women grown so mankind? Must they be wooing?" (Beau. & Fl) "Be not too mankind against your wife." (Chapman) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Mankind

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... who should instruct mankind in a more perfect mode of faith and of worship :(15) that the Messiah himself, and bis disciples who conversed with him on ..."

2. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral by Mary Wollstonecraft (1891)
"... DUTIES OF mankind CONSIDERED. IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, ..."

3. World Organization by Raymond Landon Bridgman (1905)
"WORLD ORGANIZATION CHAPTER I WORLD UNITY In the following pages the proposition will be maintained that it is time for direct work to organize mankind into ..."

4. Eminent British Lawyers by Henry Roscoe (1830)
"ample scope for exerting his talents for the benefit of mankind, his ambition never extended beyond it. No circumstance occasioned his death to be more ..."

5. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1909)
"retreat the rest of mankind involved in lawlessness, finds himself happy if he can live his life here below pure from injustice and unholy deeds, ..."

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