manwise

comparative more manwise · superlative most manwise

1. In a way befitting a man.

   For a little while Jason rode with his hands folded manwise on the pommel of his saddle and with manlike emotions in his heart[…]

   2005, John Fox, The Heart of the Hills

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   In the enemy army there also were women on horseback, in armor and steel helmets who fought manwise; they hurled themselves into the thick of the battle[…]

   2000, Linda Grant De Pauw, Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present

2. not comparableIn terms of a man.

   But she had this urgent need to think of herself in terms of who she was with, manwise[…]

   1995, Michael Stein, Probabilities

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   At the moment, Cora was basically at a standstill, manwise, somewhere between the next to come and the last to go. The last to go had been Charles[…]

   1995, Carrie Fisher, Delusions of Grandma