Meanings
- uncountableThe state, quality, or condition of mankind; humanity; humanness
I leave some of my mankindness behind me for a while and become part tree, a creature of the snow.
1997, Alan Ryan, The Reader's Companion to Alaska2 more examples
The crux of the matter is this: Does being alive exclusively, entirely, account for what we are, or is our "mankindness" somewhat the cause of this?
1987, George Edgar Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, AliensFollowing the line of the Atharva Veda, and in the spirit of the deeply rooted sense of attachment of inner spirit and human awakening Rabindranath Tagore has composed a book of lyric that preserved the essence of the Indian view of mankindness and perfection of dharma and the vision of divineness that acquired universal appeal and finally as token of its recognition Nobel Prize of literature was honoured to him.
2009, Rana P. B. Singh, with Oskar Spate, David Sopher, Uprooting Geographic Thoughts in India
Origin
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