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- noun Plural form of
mensch .
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Examples
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Das hat gesechen vnd berürt vnd geoffenbaret sant Johannes den menschen.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Note 40: Des redvensters und aller ussrer menschen hat sy kain acht, und joch gen iren aignen brüder, den sy in unsrem orden hat, gen dem hielt sy sich usserlich.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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So they declare some to be ' unter-menschen', killing babies before they become human and easing away the senile.
That Doesn't Exactly Settle It James F. McGrath 2009
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At their worst, like the mass-produced bagels you can buy in grocers 'freezers from Maine to Cicely, Alaska, TV's new menschen can be stale and tasteless.
PRIME-TIME MENSCH 2008
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Now, it seems, Jewish leading menschen have become nearly as plentiful as bialys at a bar mitzvah.
PRIME-TIME MENSCH 2008
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April 4, 2008 at 2:08 pm butt island kitteh IS nootrishus, nawt 2 menschen full ob Fiber!
Dessert iland log, day 83: - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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In the years following 1642, when the company's relations with Chinese settlers and sojourners had grown strained, the governor frequently used his landdag address to admonish the aborigines to beware of the Chinese, saying that they were "despicable people" (vuyle menschen) whose influence the aborigines should resist.
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In a ceremony of 1644, the governor of Taiwan delivered an address to seventy aboriginal elders, telling them that the Chinese "were despicable people [vuyle menschen] who sought to instill in them false opinions of us [the Dutch] and who had caused the ruin of many villages, as those of Favorolang ... can attest."
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Use every natural disaster to eliminate the unter menschen
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From the Strasbourg and Cologne period come the treatise Daz buoch der goetlîchen troestunge and the sermon Von dem edeln menschen.
Meister Eckhart Mojsisch, Burkhard 2006
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