Manfully

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Manful \Man"ful\, a.
     Showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave, courageous,
     resolute, noble. " Manful hardiness." --Chaucer. --
     {Man"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Man"ful*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  manfully
       adv : in a manful manner; with qualities thought to befit a man;
             "having said her say Peggy manfully shouldered her
             burden and prepared to break up yet another home" [syn:
              {manly}] [ant: {unmanfully}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "manfully":
     arduously, bec et ongles, courageously, dauntlessly, effortfully,
     gamely, hammer and tongs, hard, heart and soul, heroically,
     industriously, laboriously, like a man, mettlesomely, operosely,
     pluckily, spunkily, strenuously, the hard way, toilsomely,
     tooth and nail, with a will, with effort