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▪ I. † ˈmankin1 Obs.
Forms: see man n.1 and kin n.1
[OE. mǫn-, mancyn(n, f. man man n.1 + cynn kin n.1]
a. The human race, mankind.
b. A race of men, a people.
c. rare. Human nature.
Beowulf 110 Ac he hine feor forwræc..mancynne fram. 971Blickl. Hom. 129 For ealles mancynnes hæle. c1000ælfric Judg. Proœm., æfter þam þe Iosue..þæt mankyn ᵹebrohte..to þam behatenan earde. a1175Cott. Hom. 225 Ic wille fordon al mancinn mid watere. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 19 Vre louerd he is cleped helende, for þat he manken alesede. c1275Passion our Lord 11 in O. E. Misc. 37 Þrytty wyntre and more he wes among Monkunne. a1300Cursor M. 18433 Adam, fader of al man-kin. c1330Florice & Bl. (1857) 700 Ȝif manken hit tholi might Twies I schold die with right. 13..E. E. Allit P. A. 636 Inoȝe is knawen þat man-kyn grete, Fyrst was wroȝt to blysse parfyt. 13..Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. 37/4 And al soffrede swete Ihesu ffor monkunne sake þat sorwe.
▪ II. mankin2|ˈmænkɪn|
[f. man n.1 + -kin.]
A diminutive or puny man; a manikin.
1820Byron Let. to Murray 12 Oct. Lett. & Jrnls. (1901) V. 96 No more Keats, I entreat:..there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. ii, The Mankin feels that he is a born Man. |