manship

See also: Manship and -manship

English

Etymology

From Middle English manship (“position of honor; respect; courtesy; manly spirit or conduct; humanity; human condition”), from Old English mansċipe (“humanity, courtesy”), equivalent to man +‎ -ship. Cognate with Dutch manschap (“homage, manred, crew”), German Mannschaft (“team, crew, squad, force”), Swedish manskap (“rank, crew”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmænʃɪp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

manship (uncountable)

The characteristic of being a man; maleness; masculinity; manliness; manhood.
- 1845, Orestes Augustus Brownson, Charles Elwood, page 161:
  Every man is a man if he chooses to be, and has in himself all that he needs in order to be a man in the full significance of the term; and therefore no one has any occasion to borrow a part of his manship from his brother.
- 1902, Lebbeus Harding Rogers, The Kite Trust (a Romance of Wealth), page 324:
  He certainly had nothing to do with the choosing of his manship, any more than his sister had of her womanhood.
- 2003, Leon Dash, When Children Want Children: The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing, page 200:
  They were middle-class and, therefore, "had a better attitude towards girls because boys [in Washington Highlands] like beating girls to show their manship.
- 2007, Kevin P. Novak, Adam Versus Adam, page 69:
  The manship of Jesus was hid from the eyes of men as completely as the Godship.
(archaic) Position of honor or respect; dignity, worthiness
- c1400, Cursor Mundi:
  Ac fourti winter Madan mid mansipe held his riche.
(archaic) Honor shown to a person; homage, respect; courtesy
- c1330, The Romance of Guy of Warwick:
  For los and priis þou miᵹt þer winne & manschip to þe & al þi kinne.
(archaic or dialectal) Manly spirit or conduct; courage, valor, gallantry; chivalry
- c1465, The Paston Letters:
  And how that ever ye do, hold up your manship.
(archaic) Human condition.
- c1400, Cursor Mundi:
  Bot he was ferliful to call if þou it sagh..þat in a man all manscip war.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:manship.

Related terms

Anagrams

shimpan, ship-man, Shipman, shipman