Manly vs Virile - What's the difference?
manly | virile |
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)
Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
(grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.
Virile is a synonym of manly.
As adjectives the difference between manly and virile
is that manly is having the characteristics of a man while virile is being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.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.