Gallantry vs Manfulness - What's the difference?
gallantry | manfulness | Related terms |
courage
chivalrous courtliness, especially towards women
an instance of gallant behaviour or speech
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. }}
Gallantry is a related term of manfulness.
As nouns the difference between gallantry and manfulness
is that gallantry is courage while manfulness is the state of being manful.gallantry
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