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mann-cynn, II. add: (i)
men, a number of people
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  • Hwæt þǽr moncynnes forwearð on ǽgðere hand

    quantas nationes, quantosque populos idem turbo involverit,

      Ors. 1, 11; S. 50, 14.

  • Hié gegæderedon eal moncynnes ꝥ þǽr lǽfed wæs,

      2, 6; S. 88, 6.

  • Mann slóh eall þet mancynn ꝥ man árǽcan mihte,

      Chr. 1014; P. 145, 20.
a race of men, a people
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  • Ðis mannkynn lifað fela geára

    hoc genus hominum multos vivit annos.

      Nar. 38, 22.
  • Mannkynn . . . þá man háteð Silhearwan, 29.

  • Seó burh

    (Alexandria)

    is mǽrost mid Egyptiscum mancynne,
      Hml. S. 15, 14.

  • Manega of þám mancinne (

    the Jews

    ),
      Ælfc. T. Grn. 20, 41.

  • Ðreála ic on þæt mancyn (

    the Israelites

    ) sænde,
      Wlfst. 133, 19.

  • Þæt is Gog and Magog, þæt beóð þá mancyn (máncyn?) þe Alexander beclýsde binnan muntclýsan (cf. Exsurgent ab Aquilone spurcissimae gentes, quas Alexander rex inclusit, Gog et Magog. See for this legend Bousset, 'The Antechrist Legend,' translated by Keane. v. mun-clýse). Ðá getácniæð alle deófles limæ, þæt beóð alle þá þe deófles weorc wyrcð,

      Wlfst. 84, 30.

  • Manncynna ealdor

    Christ,

      Hml. Th. i. 588, 18.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “mann-cynn.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/55115.

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