Definition of manner

"manner" in the noun sense

1. manner, mode, style, way, fashion

how something is done or how it happens

"her dignified manner"

"his rapid manner of talking"

"their nomadic mode of existence"

"in the characteristic New York style"

"a lonely way of life"

"in an abrasive fashion"

2. manner, personal manner

a way of acting or behaving

3. manner

a kind

"what manner of man are you?"

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Quotations for manner

Truth is in thing, not word;
In meaning, not in manner. [ Robert Browning ]

I am native here and to the manner born. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Sc. 4 ]

When any great design thou dost intend,
Think on the means, the manner, and the end. [ Sir J. Denham ]

Perseverance will overcome a diffident manner. [ P. Holland ]

Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence. [ Francois Delsarte ]

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force. [ Alcott ]

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner. [ Hosea Ballou ]

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter. [ Chesterfield ]

He that works after his own manner, his head aches not at the matter. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner it is bestowed. [ Dr. Johnson ]

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner. [ Dickens ]

As is the bird, so is its song; as is the man, so is his manner of speech.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. [ Ward Beecher ]

The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves. [ Brillat-Savarin ]

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either. [ Thackeray ]

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. [ Lavater ]

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. [ Seneca ]

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together. [ Seneca ]

A man can never be a true gentleman in manner, until he is a true gentleman at heart. [ Charles Dickens ]

A prude exhibits her virtue in word and manner; a virtuous woman shows hers in her conduct. [ La Bruyere ]

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another. [ Richter ]

We sometimes think we hate flattery, when we only hate the manner in which we have been flattered. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as fire is of light; and works also more in the manner of fire. [ Carlyle ]

Dexterity respects the manner of executing things; it is the mechanical facility of performing an office. [ Abbe Girard ]

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth. [ Lavater ]

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could. [ Landor ]

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors, but they are seldom or never inventors. [ Voltaire ]

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime. [ Ruskin ]

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. [ Thackeray ]

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness. [ Carlyle ]

In this retirement of the mind from the senses, it retains a yet more incoherent manner of thinking, which we call dreaming. [ Locke ]

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. [ Macaulay ]

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken - the manner, the place and the time. [ Southey ]

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the natter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge. [ Chesterfield ]

In love we never think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. [ Hazlitt ]

Some men are counted wise from the cunning manner in which they hide their ignorance. In what little they do know such men play the pedant. [ A. Ricard ]

'Tis only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a Supreme Being that our calamities can be borne in that manner which becomes a man. [ Mackenzie ]

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking: they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. [ Dr. Watts ]

Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk. [ Count de Maistre ]

A beginner should study the raciest, strongest, best spoken speech, and let the printed speech alone. Write straight from the thought, without bothering about the manner. [ William D. Howells, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, most earnest humor. [ E. P. Whipple ]

As the air and manner of a gentleman can be acquired only by living habitually in the best society, so grace in composition must be attained by an habitual acquaintance with classical writers. [ Dugald Stewart ]

A copious manner of expression gives strength and weight to our ideas, which frequently make impression upon the mind, as iron does upon solid bodies, rather by repeated strokes than a single blow. [ Melmoth ]

Doubt is not itself a crime. All manner of doubt, inquiry about all manner of objects, dwells in every reasonable mind. It is the mystic working of the mind on the object it is getting to know about. [ Carlyle ]

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections. [ Hume ]

I consider beyond all wealth, honor, or even health, is the attachment due to noble souls; because to become one with the good, generous, and true, is to be, in a manner, good, generous, and true yourself. [ Dr. Arnold ]

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong. [ Jane Porter ]

In composing, think much more of your matter than your manner. To be sure, spirit, grace, and dignity of manner are of great importance, both to the speaker and writer; but of infinitely more importance is the weight and worth of matter. [ Wirt ]

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking. [ Addison ]

Not in a man's having no business with men, but in having no unjust business with them, and in having all manner of true and just business, can either his or their blessedness be found possible, and this waste world become, for both parties, a home and peopled garden. [ Carlyle ]

Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to keep one's spirit always sweet and avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability, - that is an ideal as noble as it is difficult. [ Edward Howard Griggs ]

Nature, when she amused herself by giving stiff manners to old maids, put virtue in a very bad light. A woman must have been a mother to preserve under the chilling influences of time that grace of manner and sweetness of temper, which prompt us to say, One sees that love has dwelt there. [ Lemontey ]

Remember always in painting, as in eloquence, the greater your strength the quieter will be your manner and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life, the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim. [ Ruskin ]

Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life. [ Watts ]

Two grand tasks have been assigned to the English people--the grand Industrial task of conquering some half, or more, of the terraqueous planet for the use of man; then, secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done. [ Carlyle ]

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite. [ Victor Cousin ]

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasoning. [ Macaulay ]

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint. [ Fielding ]

Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. What, said the hero in reply, have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart? He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own. [ E. L. Magoon ]

Partially or Partly? The use of the adverb partially for partly, although it has the sanction of Webster, is obviously incorrect. The case in court has been partially heard. This is a common expression, the intended meaning of which is, that the case has been heard in part, or partly heard. Partially heard, denotes that it was heard in a biased or prejudiced manner. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride! [ Henry Martyn ]

The light of the sun, the light of the moon, and the light of the air, in nature and substance are one and the same light, and yet they are there distinct lights: the light of the sun being of itself, and from none; the light of the moon from the sun; and the light of the air from them both. So the Divine Nature is one, and the persons three; subsisting, after a diverse manner, in one and the same Nature. [ R. Newton ]

The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but educated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimulate his curiosity, and awaken his mind. [ E. B. Ramsay ]

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously; who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them. [ Washington Irving ]

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive. [ H. W. Beecher ]

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters manner:

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manner in Words With Friends™

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

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Words within the letters of manner

2 letter words in manner (8 words)

3 letter words in manner (9 words)

4 letter words in manner (8 words)

5 letter words in manner (2 words)

6 letter words in manner (1 word)

manner + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence manner

Words that end with manner (2 words)

Word Growth involving manner

Shorter words in manner

an man

ma man

Longer words containing manner

badmanner badmannered

mannered badmannered

mannered illmannered

mannered mismannered

mannered unmannered

mannered wellmannered

mannerism mannerisms

mannerist mannerists

mannerless

mannerliness unmannerliness

mannerly unmannerly

manners mismanners