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† ˈmanlihead Obs.
Also 3 manliched, 5 manlyhed(e, 6 manlihed.
[f. manly a. + -head.]
1. The condition of being human.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 23 Til god srid him in manliched. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) iv. xxix. (1859) 62 Ryght as an Image that nought hath of manlyhede, but only of lykenesse, by maner of shap withouten.
2. Virility, bravery, courage.
1422–83Pol. Poems in Archæologia XXIX. 331 That saue alle Englond by his manly-hede. c1475Partenay 4352 And how this Geant bold Thens into a caue fled for fere and drede, Within the quike roche for all hys manlyhed. 1594Carew Tasso (1881) 43 Fame hath through ech part of Egypt spred The tidings cleare of your great manlihed. |