many-kinded
adjEtymology From many + kind + -ed.
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Consisting of many kinds; sundry
- What are the kingdoms of matter to the kingdom of men, and what the kingdom of men to the gorgeous empire of the many-kinded angels?1860, Frederick William Faber, Bethlehem, page 307:
- But many-kinded as they were, and numerous as they were, and whether they ploughed the sea or drummed the land for a living, a day came for each when Life grew surfeited with affluence, irritated with the connection, and disturbed in spirit.1899, James A. Fitz Simon, Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon, The Gods of Old: And the Story that They Tell, page 402:
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- Lovers of fashion sometimes put on odd ornaments, fancy buttons on dresses, extremely large ear-rings, many-kinded necklaces, ridiculous head- ornaments chiefly made of false diamonds — similar to the ornaments of the fair sex of the Indians here of the Kurds in Asia.1918, Sarkis M. Ohanesian, Life's Demand in Twentieth Century, page 481:
- Now through the grinning death's-head in the paint, Within the tavern-song, hid in the wine, In many-kinded man, emperor and saint, I see you pass, you breath of the divine.1946, John Masefield, Poems, page 347:
- The seeds of alienism, of unnatural, unauthentic elements/phenomema, multiplied and many-kinded, have been sewn and grown tall during the epochs of alienism.2011, L.S. Heatherly, The Last Human Spring, page 86:
- Synonyms
- manifold, multiplicious