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What does manliness mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality of being manly; the set of qualities, traits and abilities considered appropriate to men (as opposed to women or children); similarity to a man.
  2. (euphemistic, rare) Male genitals.
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In the second place, men had to be brave and prove their bravery or manliness.
The idea is that short men feel that they constantly have to prove their manliness.
They were killed because some people loved to hate, and others thought that to kill was proof of manliness.
As we walked into the restaurant caked in dust, an old fashioned manliness came over me.
Through most of history, tearlessness has not been the standard of manliness.
Hunting celebrated the imperial virtues of courage and manliness and confirmed the power of colonial rule.

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