manyhanded

See also: many-handed

English

Adjective

manyhanded (comparative more manyhanded, superlative most manyhanded)

1. Alternative form of many-handed
   • 1850, Charles Knight, John Leighton, Half Hours with the Best Authors, page 62:

     The all-sweeping besom of societarian reformation—your only modern Alcides' club to rid the time of its abuses — is uplift with manyhanded sway to exterpate the last fluttering tatters of the bugbear Mendicity from the metropolis.

   • 2004, Sir Michael Sadler, Jack Sislian, Representative Sadleriana, →ISBN, page 34:

     If social politics in England became actively volcanic, it would need a manyhanded Gestapo to stop the little geysers from functioning.

   • 2009, Patricia M. Boyer, The March of Days: Optimistic Realism through the Seasons of Life, →ISBN:

     Through the manyhanded program of UNICEF, we can in Hallowe'en reach out to dispel some of the very darkness that terrified those ancestors.