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For older writers like Johnson and Gibbon, manly meant firm and resolved, not scotch and cigars. From Johnson's dictionary:
Ma'nly.
adj. [from man.]
Manlike; becoming a man; firm; brave; stout; undaunted; undismayed.
As did Æneas old Anchises bear,
So I bear thee upon my manly shoulders.
Shakespeare.
Let’s briefly put on manly readiness,
And meet i’ th’ hall together.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
I’ll speak between the change of man and boy
With a reed voice; and turn two mincing steps
Into a manly stride.
Shakesp. i Merchant of Venice.
Serene and manly, harden’d to sustain
The load of life, and exercis’d in pain.
Dryden’s i Juv.
See great Marcellus! how inur’d in toils,
He moves with manly grace.
Dryden’s i Æn.
Ma'nly.
adj. [from man.]
Manlike; becoming a man; firm; brave; stout; undaunted; undismayed.
As did Æneas old Anchises bear,
So I bear thee upon my manly shoulders.
Shakespeare.
Let’s briefly put on manly readiness,
And meet i’ th’ hall together.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
I’ll speak between the change of man and boy
With a reed voice; and turn two mincing steps
Into a manly stride.
Shakesp. i Merchant of Venice.
Serene and manly, harden’d to sustain
The load of life, and exercis’d in pain.
Dryden’s i Juv.
See great Marcellus! how inur’d in toils,
He moves with manly grace.
Dryden’s i Æn.