[f. as prec. + KIND sb. Cf. MEN-KIND.] 1. = WOMANKIND 1.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VI. 335. Þis pope is nouȝt i-rekened in þe book of poopes for he was of wommen kynde.
1577. Grange, Golden Aphrod., F ij. I can not for thy sake but say and thinke well of all womenkinde.
1611. Beaum. & Fl., Philaster, III. i. ’Tis the truth that all womenkind is false.
1652. H. L’Estrange, Amer. no Jewes, 26. A curse entailed upon Eve, and all women kind ever since.
1694. Salmon, Bate’s Dispens. (1699), 599/2. It … cures the Greensickness in Virgins, and most Diseases of the Womb in Women-kind.
1880. Blackmore, Mary Anerley, xxxvi. II. 300. The womenkind always do think that.
1883. G. H. Boughton, in Harper’s Mag., March, 539/1. The little foot-warmers still used by all womenkind in Dutch churches.
1889. Mrs. E. Kennard, Landing a Prize, i. (1891), 1. This behaviour disgusted Mr. Bousfield with womenkind.
† b. = WOMANKIND 1 b. Obs.
1571. Grindal, Injunct., Laity, § 10. Their children and seruaunts both menkinde and womenkinde.
1588. in Wadley, Notes Wills Bristol (1886), 255. [Every servant] bothe men kinde and wemen kinde.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., II. (S.T.S.), I. 133. Gif the king left successione behind him vndir xiiii ȝeiris in menkynd, and xii ȝeiris in womenkynd.
2. = WOMANKIND 3.
1648. Josselin, Diary (Camden, 1908), 59. Some of the womenkinde of the parrish.
1674. [see MEN-KIND].
1852. Miss Mulock, Agatha’s Husb., xiii. (1875), 159. The old gentleman evidently took a secret pride in his womenkind.
1905. W. B. Boulton, Gainsborough, 328. The patronage of gentlemen and their womenkind alone enabled him to live, and provided the subjects on which his fame as an artist mainly rests.
