"character" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Over the centuries, virtuous discarded its manly character in favor of a slightly later meaning: moral purity (although the old sense of "skillful" or "able" survives in the term virtuoso).
- The school's primary purpose was "to prepare a boy adequately and thoroughly for College or Business, and to inculcate in him those basic principles and high ideals which tend toward the development of a manly character."
- Forbes was of a bluff but kindly nature, diffident as to his own merits, of a straightforward and manly character.
- An addition to the 1891 construction was added in 1898 by James Warriner Moulton who attempted to give the addition what he termed greater "strength" and a "more manly character."
- Indeed, insincere posturing is said to have interfered, somehow, with the exercise of manly character.
- The formation of manly character: a series of lectures to young men.
- By doing these things, Clalin increased her manly character so that she would fit in and others wouldn't see past her disguise.
- The Dictionary of National Biography described Boddington as "of a humorous, amiable, and manly character".
- At the age of 12 he was sent to the Groton School, a boys' preparatory school whose purpose was to "cultivate manly Christian character".
- Is it consistent with the proper dignity and the manly character of a nation?
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