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▪ I. maness rare.|ˈmænɛs|
Also 6 mannes, 7 manness.
[f. man n.1 + -ess.]
Woman as the feminine of man.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 24 The man said, This nowe is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called mannes, or mannish, because she was taken out of man. 1643Trapp Comm. Gen. ii. 23 [She shall be called Woman] or Manness, of Man, as Ishah of Ish. 1855Bailey Spir. Legend in Mystic, etc. (ed. 2) 130 Taught the ædenic mysteries of man And maness.
▪ II. maness
obs. form of menace. |