mankindly

English

Etymology

From Middle English mankindely, mankyndely, equivalent to mankind +‎ -ly.

Adjective

mankindly (comparative more mankindly, superlative most mankindly)

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of mankind; humanly, humane.
   • 1928, Marguerite E. DeWitt, Our Oral Word as Social and Economic Factor:

     They are the great midland expanses that have remained young in realisation of just what our common share and responsibility in sea-power mean to all the mankindly world.

   • 1939, The Listener, volume 22, page 560:

     Let friendly music-making be the rule everywhere during wartime, and in it musicians must just now try to be particularly mankindly.

   • 1960, Council for the Study of Mankind, University of Virginia, Seminar on law and mankind, Newcomb Hall, University of Virginia May 20, 21, 22, 1960:

     Without taking the long leap to a world legislature that the World Federalists seek, or even making the drastic revision of the U. N. Charter that Clark and Sohn have so skillfully and deliberately devised, I think we could take some shorter steps to infuse it with mankindly spirit.

   • 1982, D. Keith Mano, Take Five, page 1:

     For one moment here the face might seem mankindly and evolved: but that, we know, is just an old illusion.

   • 1995, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, The 'New Paradigm': Molecular Medicine:

     With the acceleration of a historical, irreversible alteration of the earth's surface and atmosphere, which is taking place within the span of an individual human's lifetime; with the realization that our mankindly, science-guided actions result, on a scale of natural history, in the mass extinction of species, in a global climatic change, and in gene technology that has the potential to change our genetic constitution, […]

   • 2016, M.D., Abzs of Sensuality, Society, and Sex:

     Born as an animal
     We can shed our shells
     That have become our jails,
     And outgrow our carapace
     Of hard human conceits
     And sail with the wind
     With mankindly grace,
     Unbowed by booing,
     Uncowed by crowding.