Mankind vs Wight - What's the difference?
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The human race in its entirety.
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, passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}
Men collectively, as opposed to all women.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
(lb) Human feelings; humanity.
:(Ben Jonson)
(archaic) A living creature, especially a human being.
* circa 1602 , , act 1, scene 3:
* 1626 , , verse vi
(paganism) A being of one of the Nine Worlds of heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor.
(poetic) A ghost or other supernatural entity.
* 1789 , , lines 14-15-16
(fantasy) A wraith-like creature.
(archaic except in dialects ) Brave, valorous, strong.
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*:I haue two sones that were but late made knyghtes / and the eldest hyghte sir Tirre // and my yongest sone hyght Lauayne / and yf hit please yow / he shalle ryde with yow vnto that Iustes / and he is of his age x stronge and wyght
Strong; stout; active.
As a proper noun mankind
is (quranic) the 114th sura (chapter) of the quran.As a noun wight is
(archaic) a living creature, especially a human being.As an adjective wight is
(archaic except in dialects ) brave, valorous, strong.mankind
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* (all men) womankindExternal links
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . See also (l). The meaning of the wraith-like creature is from barrow-wights in world.Noun
(en noun)- O base Hungarian wight ! wilt thou the spigot wield?
- Oh say me true if thou wert mortal wight
And why from us so quickly thou didst take thy flight.
- But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied: ‘What wailing wight
Calls the watchman of the night?