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Etymology
From Yiddish, from the German Mensch (human).
Noun
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- A person of integrity and honor.
Quotations
2005 : Lionel Kessler, relaxing perhaps on a Louis Quinze day bed, garlanded all round with lines of beauty, seeing welcome proof that his clever maligned young friend was a mensch. - w:Alan Hollinghurst|Alan Hollinghurst, w:The Line of Beauty|The Line of Beauty, (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, 428)
1960 : Doctor Dreyfuss to C. C. Baxter: Be a mensch! - w:The Apartment|The Apartment
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