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manfully

manfully adverb: in a manful manner; with the characteristics considered typical of a man, such as strength, courage, and determination.

Adverb

manfully (comparative more manfully, superlative most manfully)

  1. In a manful manner; with the characteristics considered typical of a man, such as strength, courage, and determination.
    • […] Apollyon wounded him in his head, his hand and foot; this made Chriſtian give a little back: Apollyon therefore followed his work amain, and Chriſtian again took courage, and reſiſted as manfully as he could.1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 72
    • Dinner was ready; they sat down, and ate and drank manfully.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 534

manfully meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

manfully in Urdu

بہادرانہ, دلیرانہ, مردانہ

manfully in Malayalam

courageously, bravely, boldly
ആണത്തത്തോടെ, സധെെര്യം, സപൗരുഷം, ധെെര്യപൂർവ്വം, പൗരുഷത്തോടെ, ധീരതയോടെ

Examples of manfully in a sentence

  • She manfully struggled on, however - womanfully would perhaps be a stronger and more appropriate word.1859, Anthony Trollope, The Bertrams, page 264:
  • One (ant) struggled manfully by with a dead spider five times as big as itself in its arms.1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company...

Forms of manfully

comparativemore manfully
superlativemost manfully

Origin of manfully

From Middle English manfully; equivalent to manful + -ly.

Questions about manfully

What does manfully mean?
Manfully means in a manful manner; with the characteristics considered typical of a man, such as strength, courage, and determination.
What is manfully in Urdu?
Manfully in Urdu is بہادرانہ, دلیرانہ, مردانہ. See Manfully meaning in Urdu.
How do you use manfully in a sentence?
She manfully struggled on, however - womanfully would perhaps be a stronger and more appropriate word.
What part of speech is manfully?
Manfully is an adverb.

Words near manfully in the dictionary

  1. manfriend
  2. manfriends
  3. manful
  4. manfuller
  5. manfullest
  6. manfully
  7. manfulness
  8. manfulnesses
  9. mang
  10. Mang'anja
  11. mang-

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: manfully (page history and authors); manfully (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); manfully (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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