Noun

The state of being man as a human being.

He feared the speedy decline of all manhood .

State of being a man as distinguished from a child or a woman.

A strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood .

The qualities ascribed to manliness; courage; bravery; resolve.

The male genitalia.

She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood .

Men, considered as a group.

Noun

(-)

The characteristic of being a man; maleness; masculinity; manliness; manhood.

* 1845 , Orestes Augustus Brownson, Charles Elwood , p. 161:

Every man is a man if he chooses to be, and has in himself all that he needs in order to be a man in the full significance of the term; and therefore no one has any occasion to borrow a part of his manship from his brother.

* 1902 , Lebbeus Harding Rogers, The Kite Trust (a Romance of Wealth) , p. 324:

He certainly had nothing to do with the choosing of his manship , any more than his sister had of her womanhood.

* 2003 , Leon Dash, When Children Want Children: The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing , p. 200:

They were middle-class and, therefore, "had a better attitude towards girls because boys [in Washington Highlands] like beating girls to show their manship .

* 2007 , Kevin P. Novak, Adam Versus Adam , p. 69:

The manship of Jesus was hid from the eyes of men as completely as the Godship.

(archaic) position of honor or respect; dignity, worthiness

:* {{quote-book

, year=c1400 , title=Cursor Mundi , url= , passage=Ac fourti winter Madan mid mansipe held his riche. }}

(archaic) honor shown to a person; homage, respect; courtesy

:* {{quote-book

, year=c1330 , title=The Romance of Guy of Warwick , url= , passage=For los and priis þou mi?t þer winne & manschip to þe & al þi kinne. }}

(archaic) manly spirit or conduct; courage, valor, gallantry; chivalry

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, year=c1465 , title=The Paston Letters , url= , passage=And how that ever ye do, hold up your manship . }}

(archaic) human condition

:* {{quote-book

, year=c1400 , title=Cursor Mundi , url= , passage=Bot he was ferliful to call if þou it sagh..þat in a man all manscip war. }}