manlinessnoun

manly | American Dictionary

manly
adjective
us/ˈmæn·li/
having qualities such as strength and bravery that people think a man should have:
The boy was told that it wasn’t manly to cry.

Examples of manly

manly
This bond, of course, translates as political and military allegiances in genres which are about heroic exploits and other 'manly' activities.
They want manly aspirations and a firm though modest selfreliance.
Manly independence decayed as the individual allowed his body to be built up by such "external" forces of the "non-ego" (1904 247).
As intoxication rendered warriors less able to perform effectively or to perform at all, the manly prestige and glory once attached to this role diminished.
They finally become real heroes by "letting go the racialist impetus of their manly ideal" (143).
In this light, the constitutional order was more than conventionally manly.
They are manly enough, bright enough, look as if they had the soldier-stuff in them, look hardy, patient, many of them real handsome young fellows.
His enchantment as a lecturer could not come from a booming oratorical "manly" manner, as one said then.
Subordination was not considered by them to be ' ' manly ' ' behaviour.
He is also ' manly ' in the sense that he does not attempt to sternly discipline his wife.
This included the assumption that women were inherently weak and passive and, thus, unable to face challenges that called for manly strength, decision and action.
For reasons that we will explore later, it was necessary to imply that foreign mercenaries could never be as manly as indigenous citizen-soldiers.
While the colonies promised a manly alternative to a metropole that seemed increasingly feminized, the values of the empire itself were in flux.
Yet these manuals were less concerned with such practicalities than with attempts to valorise and make ' ' manly ' ' the selling profession.
Yet just as significant in such testing times was their valorization of sensibilities which challenged the emotional reticence expected of manly behaviour.
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