a1225 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 203 Do wai moder þi wepynge i thole þis ded for man-kende.

a1350 in K. Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 200 (MED) Iesu..Þin armes spredeþ to mankynde.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 9372 (MED) Þe fader of heuen Dight his dere sun to send..Vntil erth..for to bring man-kind o wa.

c1400 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 143 If monkynde in þo stat of innocense..schulde not be ydel.

1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 6 In Britayne ben hoot welles well arayed and adressyd to the vse of mankynde.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvi. lxxi. 576 Onichius..hath in itself colour medelyd lyke the naylle of mankinde.

c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1762 Thus was mankynde delyueryd from hys foon.

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Dij Howe many in nombre are all the bones in a body of mankynde?

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxiij Sathan the ennemye of almankinde.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvi. 295 The great nomber of diseases wherwith mankind is peyned.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 186 How many goodly creatures are there heere? How beauteous mankinde is? View more context for this quotation

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 139 A Law of Nature, equally obliging all man-kind.

1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. iii. 49 Allowing that Mankind hath the Rule of Right within himself.

1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. vi. 202 Mankind never suffer any work to be lost which tends to make them more wise or happy.

1809 S. Smith Serm. I. 405 To study mankind aright, we must observe, no less the circumstances in which he is placed, than [etc.].

1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland 14 Thrown early among mankind, I should early have imbibed their feelings.

1860 R. W. Emerson Wealth in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 83 A man whose eyes, ears, and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated.

1902 J. B. Greenough & G. L. Kittredge Words 158 The history of language is the history of mankind.

1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love viii. 116 What a dread he had of mankind, of other people!

1940 E. Wilson To Finland Station i. ii. 7 There had become dominant..the idea of human progress, of the capacity of mankind for self-improvement.

1987 P. Lomas Limits of Interpretation i. 3 It would appear that there is no easy solution to the ills of mankind.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. vi. 9 Abusars of themselves with the mankynde.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxxxviii^v Thus for the more parte fareth al mankynde to praye, and to crye after womans grace.

?c1570–4 Bp. R. Cox Injunctions in 2nd Rep. Commissioners Rubrics, Orders, & Directions Public Worship App. E. 406/2 in Parl. Papers 1867–8 (1868) XXXVIII. 1 Their chyldren and seruauntes both mankinde and womankinde.

?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 80 If any mankinde wyll enter therein..he shall incontinent bee reft of his sences. And if any womankinde happen to go vnto that water, she shall..bee barren.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 200 Should all despaire That haue reuolted Wiues, the tenth of Mankind Would hang themselues. View more context for this quotation

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iv. 155 Without admission of any man-kind in their company.

1696 G. Granville She-gallants ii. i. 1 I wou'd have seen all Mankind at the Devil, before I'de have taken so much pains for any one of 'em.

1828 Q. Rev. 37 402 What would mankind, or womankind, or childkind think.

1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna I. ix. 111 The infinite simplicity and silliness of mankind and womankind at large.

1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. xvii. 231 Mankind (now stressed on the second syllable) comprises all human beings, but the younger mankind (stressed on the first syllable) is opposed to womankind.

1978 Daily Tel. 8 May 3/5 Lord Denning..thought it would be very wrong if the Act was thought to ‘obliterate..all the chivalry and courtesies which we expect of mankind to womenkind’.

1479 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 230 Ane ayre mankynd, gottyn of the said John Boyd.

1639 J. Ford Ladies Triall ii. sig. D4 Sir, consider, My sex, were I mankinde, my sword should quit A wounded honour.

a1640 P. Massinger Guardian i. ii. 40 in 3 New Playes (1655) I keep no mankind servant in my house, In fear my chastity may be suspected.

1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon v. i. sig. Fviii The mankynd dame w^t trembling hand The swerde drew from her syde.

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 19 Virago, a manly woman, or a mankind woman.

1591 H. Smith Preparatiue to Mariage (Field) 61 A mankind woman is a monster, that is, halfe a woman and halfe a man.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A bould, shamelesse, mankinde, virago woman.

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. F3 Why she is mankind, therefore thou mayest strike her.

1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iii. ii. sig. E2^v Are women growne so mankind? must they be wooing.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. ii. 18 Virg. You shall stay too: I would I had the power To say so to my Husband. Sicin. Are you mankinde? Volum, I foole, is that a shame.

a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iv. vi. sig. K3 'Twas a sound knock she gave me, A plaguy mankinde girle.

1635 Life Long Meg of Westminster (1816) 22 For that hee had heard shee was so mankind as to beat all she met withall, he would try her manhood.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 7 Mankind-woman, a coarse, masculine female. Frequently used in this sense.

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xv. xii. 412 I coniure you..ye infernall kings..to appeare..in faire forme and shape of mankind kings.

c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 8 We may calle mankyndli [c1450 Longleat mankyndely] lif verrai chyualrie, as the Scripture seith in many partes.

c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 79 Vaunting is no mankindely preising, but it is a tourned vice of þe soule.

c1440 S. Scrope in tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 4 Wherfore the lak [of wit] be youen to my book, And of your mankyndlynes take at worthe.

a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 124 Haue in mynde that day that men shalle calle the & thou shalt not here, for than thi ianglynge tunge shal be stille..þe mankindelynes [a1460 anon. tr. manhode] shalle bee waasted in the erthe.

1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xii. f. 127 He set dogges, that were mankynde [L. canibus efferatis] vpon the man to be all to torne.

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iv. viii. sig. H.j^v Come away, by the matte she is mankine. I durst aduenture the losse of my right hande, If she dyd not slee hir other husbande.

1599 Bp. J. Hall in J. Marston Scourge of Villanie (new ed.) iii. Satyra Nova sig. H^v I Ask'd Phisitions what theyr counsell was For a mad dogge, or for a mankind Asse?

1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles in Wks. (1873) I. 167 Good Signor Cornelio be not too mankinde against your wife.

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iii. i. 51 You brach, Are you turn'd mankind?

1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 13 They [sc. Bears]..are never mankind, i.e. fierce, but in rutting time.

1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe ii. i. sig. C3^v You driue maids a-fore you,..as man-kindelie, as if you had taken a surfet of our Sex lately.