Definition of manhood

"manhood" in the noun sense

1. manhood

the state of being a man manly qualities

2. humanness, humanity, manhood

the quality of being human

"he feared the speedy decline of all manhood"

3. manhood

the status of being a man

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Quotations for manhood

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As Fail. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

His early dreams of good outstripped the truth,
And troubled manhood followed baffled youth. [ Byron ]

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood. [ Ward Beecher ]

The vigour of manhood passes away like a spring flower.

Be thankful for your ennui; it is your last mark of manhood. [ Carlyle ]

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot. [ J. G. Holland ]

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, and in old age prudent. [ Socrates ]

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. [ Coleridge ]

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. [ Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) ]

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. [ Wieland ]

Study is the bane of boyhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age. [ Landor ]

Study is the bane of childhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restoration of age. [ Walter Savage Landor ]

All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth. [ Shelley ]

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth, - by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood becomes the genius that rules the rest of life. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Depend upon it, my younger brethren, the bright, self-sacrificing enthusiasms of early manhood are among the most precious things in the whole course of human life. [ H. P. Liddon ]

For it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature. [ Sears ]

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood. [ Simms ]

It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired places some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon. [ Lowell ]

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician - I should like to be also something of a man. [ Theodore Parker ]

Manhood begins when we have, in a way, made truce with necessity; begins, at all events, when we have surrendered to necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to necessity, and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in necessity we are free. [ Carlyle ]

Often a nosegay of wild flowers, which was to us, as village children, a grove of pleasure, has in after years of manhood, and in the town, given us by its old perfume, an indescribable transport back into godlike childhood; and how, like a flower goddess, it has raised us into the first embracing Aurora clouds of our first dim feelings! [ Richter ]

Who is there who has not experienced that often a nosegay of wild flowers, which was to us as village children a grove of pleasure, has in after years of manhood, and in the town, given us. by its old perfume an indescribable transport back into godlike childhood; and how, like a flower-goddess, it has raised us into the first embracing Aurora-clouds of our first dim feelings? [ Richter ]

manhood in Scrabble®

The word manhood is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters manhood:

MANHOOD
(102 = 52 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

manhood

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word manhood

MANHOOD
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MANHOOD
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MANHOOD
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MANHOOD
(66 = 16 + 50)
MANHOOD
(65 = 15 + 50)
MANHOOD
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In manhood

MANHOOD
(102 = 52 + 50)
MANHOOD
(101 = 51 + 50)
MANHOOD
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MANHOOD
(98 = 48 + 50)
MANHOOD
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manhood in Words With Friends™

The word manhood is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters manhood:

MANHOOD
(113 = 78 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

manhood

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word manhood

MANHOOD
(113 = 78 + 35)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In manhood

MANHOOD
(113 = 78 + 35)
MANHOOD
(101 = 66 + 35)
MANHOOD
(101 = 66 + 35)
MANHOOD
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MANHOOD
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Words within the letters of manhood

2 letter words in manhood (10 words)

3 letter words in manhood (12 words)

4 letter words in manhood (8 words)

5 letter words in manhood (2 words)

7 letter words in manhood (1 word)

manhood + 1 blank (2 words)

manhood + 2 blanks (3 words)

Words containing the sequence manhood

Words that start with manhood (2 words)

Words with manhood in them (1 word)

Words that end with manhood (2 words)

Word Growth involving manhood

Shorter words in manhood

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