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Definition of Manlier
1. manly [adj] - See also: manly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manlier
Literary usage of Manlier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. India by John Strachey (1894)
"... —Offices to be retained by Englishmen—Natives of India often as much foreigners
as Englishmen in provinces other than their own—The manlier races cannot ..."
2. Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Gospels: Designed for Sunday School by Albert Barnes (1863)
"AND ' as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples Haiti: unto him, Master,
see what manlier of stones am what build- Hft are here! ..."
3. War Lyrics and Songs of the South by Kentucky, Abram Joseph Ryan (1866)
"Worthier he than I. Hunger and cold, danger made him defy. 'Twas manlier; he felt
that death was by. Better to risk life, than by inches die. ..."
4. The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most by Hartley Coleridge (1836)
"His lady shewed a far manlier spirit. When the regicide court first assembled,
and the crier, calling over the names of the judges, came to "Thomas Lord ..."
5. The Poetical Works of Robert Southey by Robert Southey (1845)
"A manlier, wiser virtue should be thine ! 19. Ere the good seed can give its
fruit in Spain, The light must shine on that ..."
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