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mankindly en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English mankindely, mankyndely. By surface analysis, mankind + -ly.

Meanings

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of mankind; humanly, humane.
   • For one moment here the face might seem mankindly and evolved: but that, we know, is just an old illusion. 1982, D. Keith Mano, Take Five, page 1:
   • Born as an animal We can shed our shells That have become our jails, And outgrow our carapace Of hard human conceits And sail with the wind With mankindly grace, Unbowed by booing, Uncowed by crowding. 2016, M.D., Abzs of Sensuality, Society, and Sex:
   • With the acceleration of a historical, irreversible alteration of the earth's surface and atmosphere, which is taking place within the span of an individual human's lifetime; with the realization that our mankindly, science-guided actions result, on a scale of natural history, in the mass extinction of species, in a global climatic change, and in gene technology that has the potential to change our genetic constitution, […] 1995, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, The 'New Paradigm': Molecular Medicine:
   • They are the great midland expanses that have remained young in realisation of just what our common share and responsibility in sea-power mean to all the mankindly world. 1928, Marguerite E. DeWitt, Our Oral Word as Social and Economic Factor:
   • Without taking the long leap to a world legislature that the World Federalists seek, or even making the drastic revision of the U. N. Charter that Clark and Sohn have so skillfully and deliberately devised, I think we could take some shorter steps to infuse it with mankindly spirit. 1960, Council for the Study of Mankind, University of Virginia, Seminar on law and mankind, Newcomb Hall, University of Virginia May 20, 21, 22, 1960:
   • Let friendly music-making be the rule everywhere during wartime, and in it musicians must just now try to be particularly mankindly. 1939, The Listener, volume 22, page 560:

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