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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 335 Þis pope is nouȝt i-rekened in þe book of poopes for he was of wommen kynde.

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxvii. f. 291^v Yll speakers and enimies of womenkind, do burden that sexe withall.

1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Fij I can not for thy sake but say and thinke well of all womenkinde.

1652 H. L'Estrange Americans No Iewes 26 A curse entailed upon Eve, and all women kind ever since.

1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xvi. 774/1 It..cures the Green-sickness in Virgins; and most Diseases of the Womb in Women-kind.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. ii. 34 The Caprices of Womenkind are not limited by Climate or Nation.

1747 tr. Mem. Nutrebian Court I. iii. 63 He would, in less than six months, make all womenkind equally indifferent to me.

1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley II. xxxvi. 300 The womenkind always do think that.

1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 539/1 The..foot-warmers..used by all womenkind in Dutch churches.

1952 Visct. Simon Retrospect i. 16 My grandmother, Margaret Simon, was the most composed and imperturbable of womenkind.

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’.

1997 L. Landvik Your Oasis on Flame Lake (1998) 123 ‘One victory for the equality of womenkind,’ I said.

1571 E. Grindal Iniunctions Prouince of Yorke §10. sig. Biiij Their children and seruaunts both men kinde and women kinde.

1588 in T. P. Wadley Notes Wills Orphan Bk. Bristol (1886) 255 [Every servant] bothe men kinde and wemen kinde.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. viii. iv. 1590 As many slaues mankinde and womenkinde, as they demanded for their seruice.

1906 J. Collings Land Reform xxii. 382 There were..only 195,141 persons (men-kind and women-kind) under twenty years of age who were engaged in agriculture.

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies ii. 220/1 The women kind when they come first into the world, are not so blacke, but verie white.

1648 R. Josselin Diary 24 Sept. (1976) 138 Some of the womenkinde of the parrish.

1674 D. Gookin Hist. Coll. Indians New Eng. (1792) vii. 43 The menkind sitting by themselves and the womenkind by themselves.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxvi. 85 What Sort of Creatures must the Womenkind be, do you think, to give way to such Wickedness?

1852 D. M. Mulock Agatha's Husband (1875) xiii. 159 The old gentleman evidently took a secret pride in his womenkind.

1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte II. xxv. 141 His womenkind, after their wont, declining anything more substantial than nomadic cups of tea.

1905 W. B. Boulton Life Gainsborough 328 The patronage of gentlemen and their womenkind alone enabled him to live.

1917 M. Sinclair Tree of Heaven (1918) xx. 314 You can't expect us to fight so comfy, and to be killed so comfy, if we know our womenkind are being pounded to bits in the ground we've just cleared.

1943 Times 2 July 2/4 It seems a little unnecessary that..these boys, now grown men, should dump their socks, &c., on their womenkind.