Word Meanings - UNMANHOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Absence or lack of manhood. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to UNMANHOOD)

• MANHOOD
  1. The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman. 2. Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution. I am ashamed That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus. Shak.
• ABSENCE
  1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
• GENTLEMANHOOD
  The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray.
• WOMANHOOD
  1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
• UNMANHOOD
  Absence or lack of manhood. Chaucer.