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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The manful childishness, the childish manfulness of such a reply, were impenetrable.
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
"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 William Dean Howells
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
Subdue mutiny, discord, widespread despair, by manfulness, justice, mercy and wisdom.
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
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 James Russell Lowell
