maleness

Example Sentences

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To be “manly” is to be secure in one’s maleness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Across many decades and many cultures, maleness was defined by provision, procreation, and protection.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2025

Could there be a more emphatic conflation of symbolic maleness and brute force?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025

A program note describes the approach as a “lens of the divine feminine,” albeit one that does not reject maleness.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

But it seemed to me that both of these concepts, career and maleness, were only subdivisions of the larger idea of race.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers