Manfully vs Manlier - What's the difference?
manfully | manlier |
In a manful manner; with the characteristics considered typical of a man, such as strength, courage, and determination.
* From
* From The Bertrams by , p.264
(manly)
Having the characteristics of a man.
Having qualities befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
* 2001 , Thomas W. Smith, Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy (page 86)
As an adverb manfully
is in a manful manner; with the characteristics considered typical of a man, such as strength, courage, and determination.As an adjective manlier is
comparative of manly.manfully
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- One (ant) struggled manfully by with a dead spider five times as big as itself in its arms.
- She manfully struggled on, however - womanfully would perhaps be a stronger and more appropriate word. She had to calculate not only how to play her own hand correctly, but she had to calculate on her partner's probable errors.
manlier
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* *manly
English
Adjective
(er)- Let's briefly put on manly readiness.
- Serene and manly , hardened to sustain / The load of life.
- Without a successful defense of one's city, none of the other virtues would be possible; manly courage seems to be a precondition for anything else worth achieving in life.