manyhanded

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1. alternativeAlternative form of many-handed.

   If social politics in England became actively volcanic, it would need a manyhanded Gestapo to stop the little geysers from functioning.

   2004, Sir Michael Sadler, Jack Sislian, Representative Sadleriana, →ISBN, page 34

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   The all-sweeping besom of societarian reformation—your only modern Alcides' club to rid the time of its abuses — is uplift with manyhanded sway to extirpate the last fluttering tatters of the bugbear Mendicity from the metropolis.

   1850, Charles Knight, John Leighton, Half Hours with the Best Authors, page 62

   Through the manyhanded program of UNICEF, we can in Hallowe'en reach out to dispel some of the very darkness that terrified those ancestors.

   2009, Patricia M. Boyer, The March of Days: Optimistic Realism through the Seasons of Life, →ISBN