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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or condition of being human; humanity.

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Examples

  • That Sri Aurobindo "was his own first guinea pig" and "evolved, step by tiny step, from humanhood to superhumanhood," is simply a fetish for the Western mind.

    Divine incarnation in its developmental aspects - a fetish Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • That Sri Aurobindo "was his own first guinea pig" and "evolved, step by tiny step, from humanhood to superhumanhood," is simply a fetish for the Western mind.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Seeing how he evolved, step by tiny step, from humanhood to superhumanhood, seems to me to be most wonderful; a breadcrumb trail of how Sri Aurobindo's outer nature changed.

    Divine incarnation in its developmental aspects - a fetish Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Seeing how he evolved, step by tiny step, from humanhood to superhumanhood, seems to me to be most wonderful; a breadcrumb trail of how Sri Aurobindo's outer nature changed.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Today, the vision of full humanhood is battered, scorned, deemed "unrealistic."

    The '30S 2008

  • I hope her spouse is restored to humanhood by those who judge him, and I hope that her parents get serious counseling as they need it.

    Regarding The CAT Scan Of Terri Schiavo’s Brain 2005

  • That is potentially dangerous language because it implies too strongly that fetuses and comatose persons, lacking humanhood in Fletcher's sense of the term, lack a claim to life or are reduced to merely animal or object status.

    Death, Legal and Illegal 1974

  • If an artificial rule of intelligence and not humanhood, is to be the test of one's right to participate in the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, then, on what ground can the ballot be claimed for the great body of the women?

    THE WOMAN'S ADVOCATE 1869

  • If an artificial rule of intelligence and not humanhood, is to be the test of one's right to participate in the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, then, on what ground can the ballot be claimed for the great body of the women?

    The Prevailing Fear of Genuine Democracy 1869

  • If an artificial rule of intelligence and not humanhood, is to be the test of one's right to participate in the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, then, on what ground can the ballot be claimed for the great body of the women?

    The Woman's Advocate. 1869

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