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humankind|ˈhjuːmənˈkaɪnd|
[Properly two words, human kind; now commonly written as one, after mankind.]
The human race; mankind.
c1645Cowley To Sir W. Davenant 16 So much more thanks from humane kind does merit The Poets Fury than the Zealots Spirit. 1709Pope Ess. Crit. 640 A knowledge both of books and human kind. 1728Young Love Fame vii. (1757) 162 The world their field, and humankind their prey. 1860Farrar Orig. Lang. xi. 222 All humankind will be gathered hereafter into one universal empire. |