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For thousands of years and right now in particular, political leadership has been an exploration of the varieties of masculinity, a theater where the ways of mannishness are staged.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 4, 2017

That assumption of mannishness which sat so prettily on his nonage was rendered inconspicuous by his majority.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter

So careful hitherto of feminine grace and decorum, she began to affect a mannishness of bearing, a bluntness of speech, such as found favour at De Crespigny Park.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George

She was what I should describe as the ideal type of "new" woman,—tall and athletic, yet without any affectation of mannishness.

From The Silent Bullet by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

The sense of the outline of his shoulders and his comforting black mannishness so near to her brought her almost to tears.

From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller