Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective Of, at, or toward humankind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward man; with regard to man.
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- adjective Directed toward mankind.
- adverb Toward mankind.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ithuel was one of those descendants of Puritanism who, "God-ward," as it is termed, was quite unexceptionable, so far as his theory extended, but who, "manward," was "as the Scribes and Pharisees."
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Be like your Master who grew inward, outward, and upward; selfward, manward, and
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Christianity should prescribe friendship which is a privilege, not a duty, or should essay to regulate it, for its only ethical rule of strict obligation is the negative rule which would lay out for it a track that shall never interfere with any positive duty selfward, manward or Godward.
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Leibnitz ends in theism; the moral result of his system, Godward, is optimism, -- manward, liberty, personal responsibility, moral obligation.
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Spinoza ends where he begins, in pantheism; the moral result of his system, Godward, is fatalism, -- manward, indifferentism and negation of moral good and evil.
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His faith, according to this language, goes out manward as well as Godward.
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James considers the matter from the manward side, and asserts that we are justified, in the sight of man, _evidentially_, by works, and not by faith alone
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James considers the matter from the manward side, and asserts that we are justified, in the sight of man, _evidentially_, by works, and not by faith alone
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James considers the matter from the manward side, and asserts that we are justified, in the sight of man, _evidentially_, by works, and not by faith alone
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We must notice the kindness in which Ananias approached Saul to complete the manward side of his conversion and usher in the new birth.
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