mankindly

Definitions

Pertaining to or characteristic of mankind; humanly, humane.

Examples

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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, […]”

“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.”

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