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English
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Noun
mandom (uncountable)
- (dated) mankind
- 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile:
- Nay without this law / Of mandom, ye would perish, — beast by beast / Devouring, — tree by tree, with strangling roots / And trunks set tuskwise.
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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish mandomber, equivalent to man + -dom. Compare Danish manddom.
Noun
mandom c
- manhood (state of being a man)
- manhood (euphemism of male genitalia)
- (rare) bravery, courage
- (dated) (incarnation in) human form
- Han tog mandom.
- He took human form.
- 1891, Viktor Rydberg, Vapensmeden [The Armorer], Albert Bonniers förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Uppsala universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 30 August 2025:
- Lars [...] kände som om hans ord tagit mandom och [stod] framför honom.
- Lars felt as if his words had taken human form and stood before him.
- 2009, Bengt Pohjanen, “Den nicenska trosbekännelsen [The Nicene Creed]”, in Kristi förklarings ortodoxa kyrka, archived from the original on 30 August 2025:
- Jag tror på [...] en enda Herre, Jesus Kristus, [...] som för oss människor och för vår salighets skull har stigit ner från himmelen och tagit mandom.
- I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, who for us human beings, and for the sake of our salvation, has come down from heaven and taken human form.
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