Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective Of, at, or toward humankind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward man; with regard to man.
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- adjective Directed toward mankind.
- adverb Toward mankind.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ithuel was one of those descendants of Puritanism who, "God-ward," as it is termed, was quite unexceptionable, so far as his theory extended, but who, "manward," was "as the Scribes and Pharisees."
The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Be like your Master who grew inward, outward, and upward; selfward, manward, and
The Children's Six Minutes Bruce S. Wright
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Christianity should prescribe friendship which is a privilege, not a duty, or should essay to regulate it, for its only ethical rule of strict obligation is the negative rule which would lay out for it a track that shall never interfere with any positive duty selfward, manward or Godward.
De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Leibnitz ends in theism; the moral result of his system, Godward, is optimism, -- manward, liberty, personal responsibility, moral obligation.
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Spinoza ends where he begins, in pantheism; the moral result of his system, Godward, is fatalism, -- manward, indifferentism and negation of moral good and evil.
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His faith, according to this language, goes out manward as well as Godward.
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James considers the matter from the manward side, and asserts that we are justified, in the sight of man, _evidentially_, by works, and not by faith alone
The Great Doctrines of the Bible William Evans 1910
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James considers the matter from the manward side, and asserts that we are justified, in the sight of man, _evidentially_, by works, and not by faith alone
The Great Doctrines of the Bible William Evans 1910
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James considers the matter from the manward side, and asserts that we are justified, in the sight of man, _evidentially_, by works, and not by faith alone
The Great Doctrines of the Bible William Evans 1910
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We must notice the kindness in which Ananias approached Saul to complete the manward side of his conversion and usher in the new birth.
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline the Martyr Missionary Kline, John 1900
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