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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mankind  \Man`kind"\,  n.  [AS.  mancynn  See  {Kin}  kindred,  {Kind}, 
  n.] 
  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.  --Lev.  xviii.  22. 
 
  3.  Human  feelings;  humanity.  [Obs]  --B.  Jonson 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mankind  \Man"kind`\,  a. 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mankind 
  n  :  all  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  earth;  "all  the  world  loves  a 
  lover"  [syn:  {world},  {human  race},  {humanity},  {humankind}, 
  {human  beings},  {humans},  {man}] 




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