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1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 93. Temperance was thought to be a cloke of effeminate unmanlinesse.
1675. Charac. Town-Gallant (Hindley), II. 5. Impudence he calls Boon Assurance, and unmanliness, the Genteel Negligence.
1785. Wilkins, Bhagvat, ii. 28. Yield not thus to unmanliness.
1848. Kingsley, Yeast, ii. You and yours make piety a synonym for unmanliness.
1861. Mill, Repr. Govt., iii. 63. We rightly ascribe this sort of contentment to mere unmanliness and want of spirit.
