(n.) The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
(n.) Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) Birth control methods, such as vasectomy, conflict with attitudes about manhood in Peruvian society.
(2) "Poised at the awkward intersection of real life and fiction, and of boyhood and manhood, the narrator's journal and his first stories are 'full of young men with nothing much to do' and bleed into one another," considered Lucy Daniel in the Daily Telegraph.
(3) In February this year the Southern Poverty Law Center, Human Rights Campaign and National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a consumer fraud complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that a Virginia-based group called People Can Change (PCC), which runs programmes such as a Journey Into Manhood is deceiving customers by claiming that conversion therapy works.
(4) Many young men end up losing the one thing they ‘go to the mountains’ to attain: their manhood.
(5) Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, the Hemsworth brothers ... they're everything Americans idealize about manhood.
(6) Having a police officer act out his presumption of your guilt, it seems, is so ubiquitous – even today – that it’s a rite of passage toward manhood for these black and brown boys.
(7) Many nations practise it as a rite, the time of its performance varying from soon after birth to early manhood.
(8) A girl that becomes pregnant before marriage will be scorned and shamed, while boys boast of their manhood.
(9) "I tend to think Khasi men feel diminished in their manhood compared with outsiders," she says.
(10) My beloved father, I was separated from you when I was a small child, not yet 13, but I am older now, and have attained manhood,” Hamza wrote in 2009.
(11) Kyrgios hits his forehand as if it is a statement of his manhood, all dressed up with deep-lunged exhortations, defying his opponent to hit it back harder if he dare.
(12) He says anyone interested in getting to grips with the deep-rooted disaffection and alienation among young men would do well to take "a much closer look" at A Band of Brothers' approach to helping young men make a healthy transition to manhood.
(13) His remarks, which are not translated, refer to the traditional Xhosa rites of passage which mark the transition from childhood to manhood – a subject seldom discussed in public.
(14) Doubts caused by his intersex status outweigh a manhood based on birth assignment, identity documents, rearing, socialisation, beard, penis and self-identification.
(15) West used to be scared of gay people, he said, but now, "authentic" and "secure in [his] manhood", he can "go to Paris [and] have conversations with people who are blatantly gay".
(16) They shake musical instruments made from calabash bowls strung from sticks to signify that they are emerging, circumcised, for a public celebration of manhood.
(17) He fled to Pakistan as a five-year-old to escape the Taliban and returned in manhood, at great personal risk, to press for his people’s human rights.
(18) Recommendations for reducing rape in the region include changing social norms, such as the normalisation of violence against women in many countries, promoting alternative notions of "manhood', ending impunity for men who commit rape, and cutting down on the use of violence to discipline children.
(19) However, the survey reveals a widespread lack of knowledge regarding the procedure, as well as negative perceptions or doubts about its effect on sexual performance, ability to do hard work, health, and manhood.
(20) Four perceived their fathers as having posed threats of physical or psychological annihilation to them, and five saw paternal threats to their manhood.
Mankind
Definition:
(n.) The human race; man, taken collectively.
(n.) Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race.
(n.) Human feelings; humanity.
(a.) Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Being able to look ahead, being able to make a correct prediction of events and developments has been of great interest to mankind since biblical times and with good reason.
(2) He offerered some hope – "just as mankind had the power to push the world to the brink so, too, do we have the power to bring it back into balance" but not enough for one woman, who concluded: "He sure needs a hug."
(3) We should immediately consider the organ transplantation as one of the medical treatments for the above-mentioned patients out of love for mankind.
(4) The common bovine papilloma virus type 1 has been widely used to stimulate basic research on papilloma viruses involved in some cancers of mankind.
(5) These short films aren't always musical; Laser Cats is a deliberately retro-amateurish sci-fi series about mutant cats who shoot lasers from their eyes, while a student film about giraffes claims that they are from outer space and will destroy mankind.
(6) Today the overestimation of human understanding is reflected in a dogmatic adherence to specific professional or idealogically biased doctrines and in the dubious ideal of a purely empirical science with its limited applicability to mankind.
(7) The egg is one of the most ancient symbols in mankind.
(8) This paper presents in an intellectually very shortened form the most important developmental stages of diet since the beginning of mankind.
(9) Scott's film, which starred Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba, centred on the human crew of a spaceship sent to investigate a distant planet where the answers to mankind's origins may lie hidden.
(10) Tell me what will happen when the majority of mankind has become technologically superfluous."
(11) We are learning how to: 1) vary wavelength, pulse duration, and energy to influence the nature of microscopic injury and host response in order to achieve a net therapeutic benefit; 2) utilize exogenous chromophores to increase the selection of targets for laser radiation; and 3) capture optical technology developed for industrial and military use, in order to benefit mankind with new medical and surgical techniques.
(12) Merkel delivered her own kind of blow, on the day of his election, stating that cooperation with the US could only exist on the basis of values, which meant respect for the inalienable dignity of mankind, whatever one’s origins or beliefs.
(13) A sense of the end-times is also apparent in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Contagion , where super-intelligent apes and killer microbes respectively are poised to wipe out mankind.
(14) There are mixed views not only about how sustained that warming is – seemingly it has not warmed for the last 15 years, and also the relative contributions of mankind and natural causes.” Abbott seems to have learnt from Howard’s experience of digging in, only to be forced into a policy reversal when he found himself on the wrong side of public opinion.
(15) In a joint op-ed in the National Review , Pruitt wrote that the debate on climate change is “far from settled”, adding: “Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind.” In fact, the overwhelming majority of scientists agree climate change is happening and caused by humans.
(16) The knowledge of the presence of the paranasal sinuses dates back to early mankind as well as attempts to treat their diseases.
(17) Classical approaches to the development of vaccines have provided mankind with a number of safe and effective vaccines (think of the world-wide eradication of smallpox).
(18) The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind.
(19) Morrison has also just edited and published Burn This Book, a collection of essays on censorship and the power of words, in which she writes that "a writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity".
(20) If it is just another movie in which mankind fails in the most basic tests of humanity when confronted by something alien to himself, I think we’ve all seen that one before.