Word Meanings - WOMANKIND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• HUMANIFY
  To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.
• MAGIC; MAGICAL
  1. Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency. 2. Performed by, or proceeding from, occult and superhuman agencies; done
• HUMANIZE
  To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business
• HUMANITARIANISM
  The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
• HUMANISM
  1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. 2. The study of the humanities; polite learning.
• MAGICALLY
  In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• HUMANISTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. 2. Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ACCESSORINESS
  The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.
• HUMANITY
  The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ
• HUMANIST
  1. One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff- Herzog. 2. One who purposes the study
• HUMANKIND
  Mankind. Pope.
• ACCESSIBILITY
  The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne.
• INFREQUENT
  Seldom happening or occurring; rare; uncommon; unusual. The act whereof is at this day infrequent or out of use among all sorts of men. Sir T. Elyot.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• BROOM CORN
  A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.
• BROOMSTICK
  A stick used as a handle of a broom.
• HUMANITIAN
  A humanist. B. Jonson.
• HUMANIZER
  One who renders humane.
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• BUTCHER'S BROOM
  A genus of plants ; esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
• REACCESS
  A second access or approach; a return. Hakewill.
• GREEN-BROOM
  A plant of the genus Genista ; dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.
• INHUMANLY
  In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.