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manliness

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈmænlɪnəs/Part of speech nounSorted aeilmnnssStarts with MEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the trait of being manly; having the characteristics of an adult male

Word origin

From Middle English manlynes, manlynesse. By surface analysis, manly + -ness.

Used in a sentence

  • Nought under Heaven so strongly doth allure The Sense of Man, and all his Mind possess, As Beauty’s lovely Bait, that doth procure Great Warriors oft their Rigour to repress; And mighty Hands forget their Manliness,
  • ‘He he!’ simpered Brass, who, in his deep debasement, really seemed to have changed sexes with his sister, and to have made over to her any spark of manliness he might have possessed.
  • Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed.

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