Courage vs Manfulness - What's the difference?
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The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
(label) To encourage.
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*:And wete yow wel sayd kynge Arthur vnto Vrres syster I shalle begynne to handle hym and serche vnto my power not presumyng vpon me that I am soo worthy to hele youre sone by my dedes / but I wille courage other men of worshyp to doo as I wylle doo
*(William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
*:Paul writeth unto Timothyto courage him.
The state of being manful
*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He will at least have the manfulness to depart out of it, if not; to say: "I cannot move in thee, and be a man; like a wretched drift-log dressed in man's clothes and minister's clothes, doomed to a lot baser than belongs to man, I will not continue with thee, tumbling aimless on the Mother of Dead Dogs here:--Adieu!" }}
*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Westminster Sermons, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He only sees his own weakness, and want of life, of spirit, of manfulness , of power. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1825, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=The Life of Friedrich Schiller, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Nor were these sentiments, be it remembered, the mere boasting manifesto of a hot-brained inexperienced youth, entering on literature with feelings of heroic ardour, which its difficulties and temptations would soon deaden or pervert: they are the calm principles of a man, expressed with honest manfulness , at a period when the world could compare them with a long course of conduct. }}
Courage is a related term of manfulness.
As nouns the difference between courage and manfulness
is that courage is courage while manfulness is the state of being manful.courage
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(-)- "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before." —
- It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
- "Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it." —
- He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* courageous * discourage * encourageVerb
(courag)See also
* fearlessness * bield English abstract nouns ----manfulness
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