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MANHOOD

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Traducere în limba română

manhood substantiv

1. umanitate natură umană, fire omenească.

2. bărbăţie, vârstă adultă, maturitate.

3. bărbăţie, virilitate.

4. (fam.) bărbaţii; populaţia masculină a unei ţări;

manhood suffrage drept electoral universal pentru bărbaţi.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I do not think that even my father himself, who is a hard judge of manhood, would call you that.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He seemed, rather, to have the courage of his convictions, the certainty of his manhood.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

After reading his account of it I was prepared to meet a good specimen of manhood, but hardly the quiet, business-like gentleman who came here to-day.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I shall never forget, in that moment, how instantly conscious I became of my manhood. The primitive deeps of my nature stirred. I felt myself masculine, the protector of the weak, the fighting male.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Of course there was no hope for him, not the slightest, and he knew it as well as I, but by the manhood that was in him he could not cease from fighting for that manhood.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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