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Manly vs Maply - What's the difference?

manly | maply |

As adjectives the difference between manly and maply

is that manly is having the characteristics of a man while maply is of, or pertaining to, maple.

manly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having the characteristics of a man.
  • Having qualities befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let's briefly put on manly readiness.
  • * Dryden
    • Serene and manly , hardened to sustain / The load of life.
  • * 2001 , Thomas W. Smith, Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy (page 86)
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * manliness

    Antonyms

    * womanly

    maply

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or pertaining to, maple.

    • Anagrams

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