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  • noun a man who, rejecting sexist attitudes, aims to be caring and sensitive, and to take a substantial role in the domestic routine

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Examples

  • "However, he is a patrician Cornelius, rather than what the Romans call a New Man, a nobody.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • Dean is in fact a New Man, he has changed to meet the times.

    Jonathan and Julie Myerson on Blue Valentine: almost too painful to watch 2011

  • In the same vein, language had to be found to define the product of the crucible where not only is the socialist society forged, but also a New Man, who would have the duty of building this society and, one day, the pleasure of enjoying it.

    Yoani Sanchez: Choices for Cuban Dissenters: Stigma, Prison or Exile 2010

  • In the same vein, language had to be found to define the product of the crucible where not only is the socialist society forged, but also a New Man, who would have the duty of building this society and, one day, the pleasure of enjoying it.

    Yoani Sanchez: Choices for Cuban Dissenters: Stigma, Prison or Exile 2010

  • [4125] For this is the end of the human race inheriting God; that as in the beginning, by means of our first [parents], we were all brought into bondage, by being made subject to death; so at last, by means of the New Man, all who from the beginning [were His] disciples, having been cleansed and washed from things pertaining to death, should come to the life of God.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • One of Sulla's new senators through election as quaestor, Malleolus was by no means a New Man; there had been consuls in his family, there were imagines in his atrium.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • But let us turn our faces away from all the horrors of slavery, reconstruction and all kindred wrongs which have been heaped upon us, and stand up, measuring the full statue of an American citizen, upon the threshold of the new century as a New Man.

    Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp

  • He's the New Man; she let 'em hope she wasn't going in for him; a lot of them probably didn't even know that she knew him.

    The Flirt 1912

  • He's the New Man; she let 'em hope she wasn't going in for him; a lot of them probably didn't even know that she knew him.

    The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Now here am I; and here is this chap Enry Straker, the New Man.

    Act II 1903

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