"menkind" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From men + -kind. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|men|kind}} men + -kind Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} menkind pl (plural only)
  1. menfolk Tags: plural, plural-only

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          "ref": "1920, Margaret Pedler, The Hermit of Far End",
          "text": "She had anticipated passionate reproaches, tears even, for an attractive women who has been consistently spoiled by her menkind is, of all her sex, the least prepared to bow to the force of circumstances.",
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          "ref": "1904, Charles G. D. Roberts, The Watchers of the Trails",
          "text": "In the wildcat's eyes, however, as in the eyes of all the wild kindreds, he seemed a treasured possession of the menkind, and an especially objectionable expression of all their most objectionable characteristics.",
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          "text": "\"To think that here you live, all the menkind belongin' to me, and I never to have seen it!",
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          "ref": "1924, Nesta H. Webster, Secret Societies And Subversive Movements",
          "text": "If \"all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical,\" presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well for the luckless Arab who is to live beneath their sway.",
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