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- Middle English · inherited frommanlynes
- English todaymanliness
From Middle English manlynes, manlynesse. By surface analysis, manly + -ness.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
manliness
Today it means: The quality of being manly; the set of qualities, traits and abilities considered appropriate to men (as opposed to women or children); similarity to a man. Full definition →
Middle English manlynes