manful
adjective
having or showing boldness, courage, or strength; resolute.
manfulness
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a word derived from
manful.
Example Sentences
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But here we are met with the cry of strength and manfulness.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
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 Saint of Siena Catherine
Subdue mutiny, discord, wide-spread despair, by manfulness, justice, mercy and wisdom.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
Unspeakable deliverance, and new destiny of thousand-fold expanded manfulness for all men, dawns out of the Future here.
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
Hence, liars, and scoundrels, and vulgar bullies abound, and men skulk and grin, and play the double-face, till they lose all manfulness.
From Ardath by Marie Corelli
