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Definition of Masculinely
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Masculinely
Literary usage of Masculinely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and ...by Thomas Sheridan by Thomas Sheridan (1790)
"... virile, not effeminate; the gender appropriated to the male kind in any word.
masculinely.mis'-ku-Hn-ty. ad. Like a man. ..."
2. Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, Or Quadripartite: Being Four Books of the Influence by Ptolemy, Proclus, Philip Ranger, J. M. Ashmand (1822)
"But, if both Mars and Venus, or if only one of them, be likewise masculinely
situated, men will be freely and promptly inclined to natural intercourse and ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"In the masculine manner; like a man. [Rare.] Aurelia Tells me you've done most
masculinely within, And played the orator. II. Jonson, Catiline, ii i. ..."
4. New Essays Towards a Critical Method by John Mackinnon Robertson (1897)
"Keats, let us agree, could be both masculinely superior to the sexual instinct
and masculinely slave to it; and it consists with either fact that he should ..."
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