manhood
Noun
Meaning
The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution.
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he feared the speedy decline of all manhood
According to Ellison, his mother felt that "my brother and I would have a better chance of reaching manhood if we grew up in the north."
All that made the poem of his early manhood charming he rigidly erased.
Earlier tethered jumping The land diving ( Sa : Gol main) of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu is an ancient ritual in which young men jump from tall wooden platforms with vines tied to their ankles as a test of their courage and passage into manhood.
Dominating women simply affirmed manhood.
For example: The Jews feared to believe in manhood taken up into God, and therefore have lost the grace of redemption, because they reject that on which salvation depends. citation from New Advent.