womankind
nounEtymology From Middle English wommankynde. By surface analysis, woman + -kind.
1
Women, taken collectively.
- The infinite simplicity and silliness of mankind and womankind at large were too well known to the Serjeant to cause him dismay, let them be shown in ever so egregious a fashion.1871 (date written), Anthony Trollope, “It isn’t Law”, in Lady Anna. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1874, →OCLC, page 111: