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womankind

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Etymology

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From Middle English wommankynde. By surface analysis, woman +‎ -kind.

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womankind (uncountable)

  1. Women, taken collectively.
    Synonyms: petticoats, skirts, monstrous regiment (humouristic)
    Hypernym: mankind
    Alternative form: womenkind
    • 1871 (date written), Anthony Trollope, “It isn’t Law”, in Lady Anna. [], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, [], published 1874, →OCLC, page 111:
      The infinite simplicity and silliness of mankind and womankind at large were too well known to the Serjeant to cause him dismay, let them be shown in ever so egregious a fashion.

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