▪ I. † ˈmankin1 Obs.
Forms: see man n.1 and kin n.1
[OE. mǫn-, mancyn(n, f. man man n.1 + cynn kin n.1]
a. The human race, mankind. b. A race of men, a people. c. rare. Human nature.
| Beowulf 110 Ac he hine feor forwræc..mancynne fram. 971 Blickl. Hom. 129 For ealles mancynnes hæle. c 1000 ælfric Judg. Proœm., æfter þam þe Iosue..þæt mankyn ᵹebrohte..to þam behatenan earde. a 1175 Cott. Hom. 225 Ic wille fordon al mancinn mid watere. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 19 Vre louerd he is cleped helende, for þat he manken alesede. c 1275 Passion our Lord 11 in O. E. Misc. 37 Þrytty wyntre and more he wes among Monkunne. a 1300 Cursor M. 18433 Adam, fader of al man-kin. c 1330 Florice & Bl. (1857) 700 Ȝif manken hit tholi might Twies I schold die with right. 13.. E. E. Allit P. A. 636 Inoȝe is knawen þat man-kyn grete, Fyrst was wroȝt to blysse parfyt. 13.. Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. 37/4 And al soffrede swete Ihesu ffor monkunne sake þat sorwe. |
▪ II. mankin2
(ˈmænkɪn)
[f. man n.1 + -kin.]
A diminutive or puny man; a manikin.
| 1820 Byron Let. to Murray 12 Oct. Lett. & Jrnls. (1901) V. 96 No more Keats, I entreat:..there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. ii, The Mankin feels that he is a born Man. |