womenkind
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of womenkind
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English wommen kynde; see women, kind 2
Example Sentences
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"One small step for women, one giant leap for womenkind."
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2017
The “women” Greer addresses are not the majority of womenkind – she concedes that she does not “know” poor people – but people like herself, university graduates, the comparatively privileged members of the western democracies.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 25, 2016
We see them and their womenkind wearing golden ornaments at their feasts, the tables laden with boars’ flesh and venison and chased cups of ale and mead.
From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
Bachelors of mysterious habits and manners were totally out of place in a station so well supplied with womenkind.
From Banked Fires by Savi, E. W. (Ethel Winifred)
Rage, shame, and indignation were all at work within me; and even the ease and indifference displayed by the womenkind increased my sense of humiliation.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
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