manfulness
- a word derived from manful.
Example Sentences
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"No, no, Nancy," he replied with a manful struggle for manfulness, "I—I —It's meant, I reckon," and slunk away from the girl's brutality as if it were his own shame.
From The Leatherwood God by Howells, William Dean
One likes to note, in passing, how frequently Catherine urges frail, cloistered women, sheltered from all the din and storm of outer life, to "manfulness."
From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint
To which he answered, with an honest manfulness, in a tone which is now pathetic enough to me, that he was much grieved yet much obliged, and uncertain how to decide.
From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas
The manful childishness, the childish manfulness of such a reply, were impenetrable.
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
His taste was not an instinct, but the slow result of reflection and of the manfulness with which he always acknowledged to himself his own mistakes.
From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell
