adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Not a dangerous disposition I think; though it might be if my nature were more masculine &038; daring.
■ NOUN
form
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From a very early age, lower-working-class boys engage in rough, exclusively masculine forms of play, free of adult supervision.
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He stuttered nervously before managing to answer herand when he did, he used the masculine form of address.
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But there was nothing quaint about the masculine form that adorned it.
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This situation would make the use of the masculine form in this instance highly marked.
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He has their virtues translated into masculine form .
identity
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In Jacobean drama masculine identity requires masculine ratification.
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The quadrature that Lacan describes is that of masculine identity .
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First and most obviously perhaps, it shows how homophobia is often integral to a conventional kind of masculine identity .
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Other male roles, other styles of masculine identity , must be learned or created.
subject
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The principal feminist challenge to psychology's predominantly male subjects and masculine subject matter is, again, an egalitarian one.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Even today, men tend to do such masculine tasks as car maintenance and yard work.
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He wanted to say he was sorry but his masculine pride wouldn't let him.
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Violence is an extreme form of traditionally masculine behaviour.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Feminist campaigns around the state effectively unmasked the unofficial masculine culture of politicians, experts and administrators.
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I heard from Bridget there's some kind of row going on about masculine endings.
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Language is masculine: It operates according to a masculine economy of representation.
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The quadrature that Lacan describes is that of masculine identity.
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There was an aura of masculine occupation - neat, but unmistakably masculine.
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You may be wondering why I called the various machines by masculine names.