manfulness

When Durant thanked his mother in that remarkable, handkerchief-clutching speech after receiving the NBA’s Most Valuable Player Award, it was an unmistakable moment of completion — not in the sense of a career, but of manfulness.

But here we are met with the cry of strength and manfulness.

It was an incomparable head, in which nobility was united to manfulness,—the head at once of an angel and a warrior.

A noble-hearted woman cannot withstand the influence of genuine intellectual manfulness, and until the martyrdom of Christ became heroism, the firm, unyielding high-priest exerted an irresistible charm over the countess.

To attack, to repel, to protect, to perform some deed demanding manfulness, energy, free, fearless strength.