Manfulness vs Stomach - What's the difference?

Manfulness is a related term of stomach.

As nouns the difference between manfulness and stomach

is that manfulness is the state of being manful while stomach is an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.

As a verb stomach is

to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

manfulness

English

Noun

(es)

The state of being manful

*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition= citation

, 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= citation

, 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= citation

, 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. }}

stomach

English

(wikipedia stomach)

Alternative forms

* stomack

Noun

(en noun)

An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.

(informal) The belly.

(obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:

Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].

* 1613 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. ii. 34:

He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach , ever ranking / Himself with princes;

* John Locke

This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach , the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.

(obsolete) Appetite.

a good stomach for roast beef

*, II.ii.1.2:

If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach , let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.

* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , I. ii. 50:

You come not home because you have no stomach'. / You have no ' stomach , having broke your fast.

(figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).

I have no stomach for a fight today.

* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. iii. 36:

That he which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart:

Synonyms

* (belly) abdomen, belly, bouk, gut, guts, maw, tummy

Derived terms

* sick to one's stomach * stomach lining * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach

Descendants

* stummy, tummy

Verb

(en verb)

To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.

I can't stomach her cooking.

(obsolete) To be angry.

(Hooker)

(obsolete) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

* 1607 , , III. iv. 12:

O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.

* L'Estrange

The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.

* Milton

The Parliament sit in that body to be his counsellors and dictators, though he stomach it.

Derived terms

* stomachable * unstomachable

Anagrams

* 1000 English basic words