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manliness Synonyms

manliness

n.

masculinity, manlikeness, virility; see courage 1, manhood 2, strength 1.

manliness Quotes

To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuseöit is so easy to have any of them in Indiaönever to let your enthusiasm be soured or your courage grow dim but to remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of his ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time and to feel that somewhere among those millions you have left, a little justice, or happiness or prosperity, a sense of manliness or moral dignity, a springof patriotism, a dawn of intellectual enlightenmentora stirringofduty whereit did not exist beforeöthat is enough, that is the Englishman's justification in India.

—Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel

In all the silent manliness of grief.

—Goldsmith, Oliver

Browse dictionary entries near manliness

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  6. manitou
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  8. Manisa
  9. Manipur
  10. manipulator
  1. manly
  2. Mann
  3. Mann Act
  4. Mann-Elkins Act
  5. manna
  6. manned
  7. mannequin
  8. manner
  9. mannered
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