Skip to content

manshiply

adverb

No English definition recorded for this entry.

L194301 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: From Middle English manshiply (“honorably, faithfully; in a courtly manner”), equivalent to manship + -ly.

  1. manly, honorably, faithfully; good qualities of a man; in a courtly, polite manner

    1500, English Conquest of Ireland The Pepil of the londe manshiply hym sholde vp-take.

manshiply — meaning, definition (adverb) · Vinony