Noun: mankynde
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Sample Sentences
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¶ And Grace gaf hym þe cros. wıþ þe croune of þoꝛnes / That crıſt vp on Caluarıe. foꝛ mankynde on pyned (And Grace gave him the Cross with the Crown of Thorns, / that Christ suffered on for humanity up on Calvary.) [c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “Paſſus xıx᷒ et explıcıt Dobet // et ımplıcıt Dobeſt”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 121, verso; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like mankynde
syment,
cristened,
savete,
savyne,
sandal,
whelere,
scuage,
scluse,
sclise,
sclave,
schyft,
schuit,
schite,
schort,
schold,
schern,
smothe,
smethe,
smerte,
slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From man (“man, human”) + kynde (“nature, kind”), possibly as an alteration of mankyn.
Verbs referencing "mankynde"
English Nouns
mankind.
Translations