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[ noun ] all of the inhabitants of the earth

Examples

"all the world loves a lover" "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

When we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man 's worthlessness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon , a weapon designed and used time_and_time_again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state '' .

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

Each man can identify himself with the history and the death of Jesus_Christ because Jesus_Christ has identified himself with human history and human_death , coming as the head of a new humanity .

The first turn of the spiral is the primeval history of humanity in Adam .

From this earth , then , while it was still virgin God took dust and fashioned the man , the beginning of humanity '' .

Irenaeus does not regard Adam and Eve merely as private individuals , but as universal human_beings , who were and are all_of humanity .

Related terms

group people

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[ noun ] the quality of being humane

Used in print

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

Yet no detail was too small to receive attention from this master , and as a result the playing here has humor , delicacy , and radiant humanity .

Related terms

humaneness

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[ noun ] the quality of being human

Synonyms

manhood humanness

Examples

"he feared the speedy decline of all manhood"

Used in print

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

There is no justification for systematizing the random statements of Irenaeus about the image of God beyond this , nor for reading into his imprecise usage the later theological distinction between the image of God ( humanity ) and the similitude of God ( immortality ) .

Related terms

quality human nonhuman

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