noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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early
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He was an active if conventional soldier and citizen; and from early manhood he wrote plays.
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He was experiencing the limited pleasures and drawbacks of early manhood .
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Nu and Aung San only grew to early manhood in the 1920s and 1930s.
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He was excommunicated in his early manhood from his synagogue on account of his unorthodox opinions.
young
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His adolescence and young manhood had occurred in a vacuum.
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He had spent the years of his young manhood in this city while I was still going to cheder.
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Grown to young manhood , Krishna killed his tyrant uncle and won universal renown.
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Gandhi forgot his own youth and young manhood .
■ VERB
grow
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As he grew to manhood , Vologsky had accepted that state of being as both normal and even desirable.
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As the boy grew to manhood he saw even more clearly than she the terrible situation.
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He now had the neatly trimmed beard which his father expected his sons to adopt as they grew to manhood .
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When I was a boy growing into manhood , I had a bedroom window all to myself and no female siblings.
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Nu and Aung San only grew to early manhood in the 1920s and 1930s.
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When Gregory grew into manhood , he separated from his family, then was ordained.
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But when their two sons had grown to manhood Thebes was visited by a terrible plague.
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When he reached it, the little son he had left there was grown to manhood .
prove
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A story was even current to prove his manhood he had killed and castrated a boy belonging to the palace.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the first flush of youth/manhood
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Now aged 31, Cardus is no longer in the first flush of youth.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many societies have a special ceremony when a boy has reached manhood .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Constance, in a few words, had insulted his dignity, his pride, his sense of exclusiveness, his manhood .
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He had spent the years of his young manhood in this city while I was still going to cheder.
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He was an active if conventional soldier and citizen; and from early manhood he wrote plays.
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In all its specific expressions, manhood is made, not born.
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Texts put forth a gospel of real manhood and real womanhood.
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What have I got to say to a man whose idea of manhood is the same old sexist patriarchy?
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What is the true meaning of manhood ?