Definition of "manhood" []

• The state or time of being an adult male human. (noun)
• The composite of qualities, such as courage, determination, and vigor, often thought to be appropriate to a man. (noun)
• Adult males considered as a group; men. (noun)
• The state of being human. (noun)

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• "It's unclear exactly what "men" entails, and it seems like everyone's imitating someone else, and not even the biological men have worked out what their manhood is all about."
• "Like most very young men Copplestone on arriving at what he called manhood (by which he meant the age of twenty-one years), had drawn up for himself a code of ethics, wherein he had mentally scheduled certain things to be done and certain things not to be done."
• "It seems to me that what you term your manhood was composed largely of pride, conceit, ignorance of yourself, and inexperience of the world."