Manly: Definition and part of speech

Manly

  1. adv. In a manly manner; with the courage and fortitude of a manly man; as, to act manly.
  2. superl. Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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