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单词 humankind
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humankindn.

Brit. /ˌhjuːmənˈkʌɪnd/, /ˈhjuːmənkʌɪnd/, U.S. /ˌ(h)jumənˈkaɪnd/
Forms: see human adj. and kind n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: human adj., kind n.
Etymology: < human adj. + kind n., after mankind n. Compare earlier womankind n., womenkind n., menkind n. Compare also earlier humanity n.
1. Human nature; humanity, the fact of being human. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > [noun] > nature of man
mannisheOE
fleshc1000
mannessc1225
mankina1325
mankinda1325
naturec1390
flesh and bloodc1450
human nature1474
humankind?1504
humanities1613
homineity1660
?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. cc.iii I sawe all the pryuyte Of her werke and humayne kynde.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxiii. f. clxxxiiv/2 I neuer beleued..that the sonne of god wolde come so lowe as to come fro Heuen to come in to this worlde to take humayn kynde of a woman.
2. The human race; mankind.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > [noun]
maneOE
worldOE
all fleshc1000
mankinOE
earthOE
little worldc1175
man's kinda1200
mankinda1225
worldrichec1275
slimec1315
kindc1325
world1340
sectc1400
humanityc1450
microcosma1475
peoplea1500
the human kindred?1533
race1553
homo1561
humankind1561
universality1561
deadly?1590
mortality1598
rational1601
vicegerent1601
small world1604
flesh and blooda1616
mannity1621
human race1623
universea1645
nations1667
public1699
the species1711
Adamhood1828
Jock Tamson's bairns1832
folx1833
Bimana1839
human1841
peeps1847
menfolk1870
manfolk1876
amniota1879
peoplekind1956
personkind1972
1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vi. sig. Q.i O fading humane kinde [L. o fluxum decus humanum], How vaine and howe vncertaine is this transitory lyfe?
?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome 243 Hee [sc. the wise man] is a citizen of the world like Socrates, hee containeth in his affection all humanekind [Fr. tout le genre humain].
1679 ‘Ephelia’ Female Poems 1 Hail Mighty Prince! whom Heaven has design'd To be the chief Delight of human kind.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 537 Let my Body have, The last Retreat of Human Kind, a Grave.
1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 37 A Knowledge both of Books and Humankind.
1726 E. Young Universal Passion (Satire the Last) 3 But daring men there are..Who stung by glory, rave, and bound away, The World their Field, and Human-kind their Prey.
1796 R. Southey Wks. (1838) II. 227 Iniquity abounds, and rampant Vice..taints The herd of humankind.
1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms iii. 276 Though ever lost to human kind And all they love, they are resign'd.
1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. xi. 222 All humankind will be gathered hereafter into one universal empire.
1943 J. W. Campbell in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Nov. 3/2 A planet habitable for humankind will, of necessity, be Earthlike.
1982 E. Kallen Ethnicity & Human Rights Canada Pref. p. xii Ethnocentric biases render salient the racial divisions of humankind.
2004 New Statesman 6 Sept. 12/2 Humankind is very bad at predicting what will make it happy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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