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Wanner vs Manner - What's the difference?

wanner | manner |

As an adjective wanner

is (wan).

As a noun manner is

.

wanner

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (wan)
    • ----

    wan

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (wanner)
  • Pale, sickly-looking.
  • * Spenser
    • Sad to view, his visage pale and wan .
  • * Longfellow
    • the wan moon overhead
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1921 , year_published=2012 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Efficiency Expert , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=She looked wan and worried, ... }}
  • Dim, faint.
  • * {{quote-book, passage=’twas so far away, that evil day when I prayed to the Prince of Gloom / For the savage strength and the sullen length of life to work his doom. / Nor sign nor word had I seen or heard, and it happed so long ago; / My youth was gone and my memory wan , and I willed it even so.
    • , title=(Ballads of a Cheechako) , chapter=(The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike) , author=Robert W. Service , year=1909}}
  • Bland, uninterested.
    • A wan expression

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being wan; wanness.
  • * Tennyson
    • Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.

    Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (win)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    manner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • The treacherous manner of his mournful death.
  • * , chapter=15
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
  • Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self; bearing; habitual style.
  • * 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
    • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • * '>citation
  • Customary method of acting; habit.
  • Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
  • The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
  • Certain degree or measure.
  • Sort; kind; style.
  • Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.

    • Derived terms

    (terms derived from manner) * bad manners * bedside manner * good manners * manner of articulation * mannered * mannerism * mannerist * mannerless * mannerly * overmanner * table manners * to the manner born

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