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Maness

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Dutch. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia, United States. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    Female equivalent of man: woman. feminine, form-of, no-plural, nonce-word, obsolete

    "Taught the Ædenic mysteries of man And maness; how in union infinite,"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From man + -ess, especially after Biblical Hebrew אִשָּׁה (ishá, “woman”), which is traditionally presented as a feminine form of אִישׁ ('ish, “man”) but is a false cognate. Compare French hommesse, formed upon the same analogy.

Etymology 2

Probably a variant of Dutch Manes.

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