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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Manliness.

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Examples

  • As Olivier suitably dashing, no? crushed Celeste to his muscled and manly chest, she cried, Oh, I am now truly complete to have such a dashing and wondrous specimen of manlihood.

    Ten Things Tuesday « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2007

  • HAIG: Well, I think we have to be very, very careful that we do not force non-Arab countries who are concerned about American lack of resolve and manlihood to draw the conclusion we've failed in Iraq and we are also going to fail if challenged by them.

    CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2005 2005

  • Now as for thee, thou'rt soft and of a manlihood indifferent, so would I rate thee at one gold piece.

    The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Yet New England was founded upon the principle that this temper of mind develops manlihood; that inward struggles are the only discipline which can fit a human being for the outward conquest of life.

    The Puritans Arlo Bates 1884

  • Themis; thou tyrannous to them that oppose thee with force; thou leader of just men, thou master of manlihood, thou that whirlest thy flaming sphere among the courses of the seven stars of the sky, where thy fiery steeds ever bear thee above the third orbit of heaven; do thou listen to me, helper of mortals, Giver of the bright bloom of youth.

    The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Andrew Lang 1878

  • Cheapest Viagra in Uk - People are no longer inhibited to talk about this disease that was once thought to be a scar on the manlihood of a person.

    Rails Wiki johnwalter 2010

  • Cheapest Viagra in Uk - People are no longer inhibited to talk about this disease that was once thought to be a scar on the manlihood of a person.

    Rails Wiki johnwalter 2010

  • Cheapest Viagra in Uk - People are no longer inhibited to talk about this disease that was once thought to be a scar on the manlihood of a person.

    Rails Wiki johnwalter 2010

  • Not only cows stop giving milk if he passes a tabela, people fall of their bicycles, men also lose their manlihood if he is around.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Bureau News 2010

  • Not only cows stop giving milk if he passes a tabela, people fall of their bicycles, men also lose their manlihood if he is around.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Bureau News 2010

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