many-kinded en · ADJ
Etymology
From many + kind + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Consisting of many kinds; sundry
But many-kinded as they were, and numerous as they were, and whether they ploughed the sea or drummed the land for a living, a day came for each when Life grew surfeited with affluence, irritated with the connection, and disturbed in spirit.
1899, James A. Fitz Simon, Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon, The Gods of Old: And the Story that They Tell, page 402:What are the kingdoms of matter to the kingdom of men, and what the kingdom of men to the gorgeous empire of the many-kinded angels?
1860, Frederick William Faber, Bethlehem, page 307:Lovers of fashion sometimes put on odd ornaments, fancy buttons on dresses, extremely large ear-rings, many-kinded necklaces, ridiculous head- ornaments chiefly made of false diamonds — similar to the ornaments of the fair sex of the Indians here of the Kurds in Asia.
1918, Sarkis M. Ohanesian, Life's Demand in Twentieth Century, page 481:The seeds of alienism, of unnatural, unauthentic elements/phenomema, multiplied and many-kinded, have been sewn and grown tall during the epochs of alienism.
2011, L.S. Heatherly, The Last Human Spring, page 86:Now through the grinning death's-head in the paint, Within the tavern-song, hid in the wine, In many-kinded man, emperor and saint, I see you pass, you breath of the divine.
1946, John Masefield, Poems, page 347: