officer-like

comparative more officer-like · superlative most officer-like

1. alternativeAlternative form of officerlike.

   […] for from her husband’s representations of me, she had formed a notion that she was to see a fine, tall, officer-like looking man (I use her very words); […]

   1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 299

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   The Secretary of Legation came next, then Captain Fairfax, commander of the Enchantress, and then by degrees stepped forward more tall, officer-like gentlemen—majors, lieutenants, colonels, captains, &c., whose names I need not mention.

   1876, Robert Brewin, “Visits and Visitors”, in Memoirs of Rebecca Wakefield, Wife of the Rev. T. Wakefield, United Methodist Free Churches Missionary in Eastern Africa, London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., […], pages 164–165

   Understanding how divergent codes of masculinity informed ideas about officer-like conduct and gentlemanliness therefore reveals the values, assumptions, and taboos in military culture.

   2022, Matthew Barrett, “Introduction”, in Scandalous Conduct: Canadian Officer Courts Martial, 1914–45, University of British Columbia Press, →ISBN, page 10