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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
womankind
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And before the letters flood in from feminists, neither is this meant as a slur on womankind.
▪ And does this reflect generally on womankind?
▪ I had, after all, accounted for two male children and thus done womankind something of a statistical favour.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Womankind

Womankind \Wom"an*kind`\, n. The females of the human race; women, collectively.

A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access.
--Hawthorne.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
womankind

late 14c., from woman (n.) + kind (n.).

Wiktionary
womankind

n. women, taken collectively.

WordNet
womankind

n. women as distinguished from men

Wikipedia
Womankind (magazine)

Womankind is an ad-free newsstand women's magazine distributed throughout the UK, Australia, NZ, the US, and Canada. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that it had "an initial circulation of 20,000 and is aiming to find a broad demographic of smart women interested in big ideas about philosophy, sociology and psychology.". It is distributed in 3,000 news agents in Australia. Womankind was the best-selling item in the history of the Byron Bay Writers' Festival when it launched there in 2014 and is one of the world's few ad-free newsstand publications. It is produced by the team behind the world's most widely distributed philosophy magazine, New Philosopher, which launched in 2013 and is available in Australia, NZ, the US, Canada and the UK.

Usage examples of "womankind".

Order of Knighthood has been endeavoring to ameliorate and elevate the condition of womankind.

Ellen looked stricken, Sal avid, and Henry Clift was shaking his head as if at the foolishness of womankind.

A dulcet sweetness of womankind, a little miniature cutie and he was frozen with anxiety.

I was looking with dread at the fearful havoc of old age upon a face which, before merciless time had blighted it, had evidently been handsome, but what amazed me was the childish effrontery with which this time-withered specimen of womankind was still waging war with the help of her blasted charms.

Juba to all the bravery of a hero Adds softest love, and more than female sweetness: Juba might make the proudest of our sex, Any of womankind, but Marcia, happy.

Are they not a gage of battle you have thrown down to the wicked Nils Lykke on behalf of all womankind?

Raynham would have grown depopulated of its womankind had not Adrian interfered, who pointed out to the baronet what a fearful arm his butler was wielding.

She, on her side, had assured him of her firm belief in his promise, and had with the most solemn vows declared, that on his fulfilling or breaking these promises, it depended, whether she should be the happiest or most miserable of womankind.

Are they not a gage of battle you have thrown down to the wicked Nils Lykke on behalf of all womankind?

I was looking with dread at the fearful havoc of old age upon a face which, before merciless time had blighted it, had evidently been handsome, but what amazed me was the childish effrontery with which this time-withered specimen of womankind was still waging war with the help of her blasted charms.

After what a woman had done to him, he felt that womankind in general owed him a whole shitpot full of opportunities for-- what?

For all my transgressions against womankind -- not least my apparent inability to treasure one of their number above all else in life, as did many so-called sexist pigs -- I was contrite, and did not expect absolution.

Veins of divergencies, convergencies, Our botanist in womankind perceives.

I would need a collection of them before I could risk revealing them to the world and allowing them to work their empowering magic on womankind.

One with hair as dark as a raven's wing, the other a shining platinum blonde, both clad, albeit marginally, in mini-dresses, the dark one in an all-white silk affair, the blonde all in black, and both of them possessed as far as one could see-and one could see a great deal-of figures that demonstrated clearly the immense strides forward made by a select few of womankind since the days of Venus di Milo.