different between manship vs meanship

English

Etymology

From Middle English manship (“position of honor; respect; courtesy; manly spirit or conduct; humanity; human condition”), from Old English manscipe (“humanity, courtesy”), equivalent to man +? -ship. Cognate with Dutch manschap (“homage, manred, crew”), German Mannschaft (“team, crew, squad, force”), Swedish manskap (“rank, crew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæn??p/

Noun

manship (uncountable)

1. The characteristic of being a man; maleness; masculinity; manliness; manhood.
   • 1845, Orestes Augustus Brownson, Charles Elwood, p. 161:

     Every man is a man if he chooses to be, and has in himself all that he needs in order to be a man in the full significance of the term; and therefore no one has any occasion to borrow a part of his manship from his brother.

   • 1902, Lebbeus Harding Rogers, The Kite Trust (a Romance of Wealth), p. 324:

     He certainly had nothing to do with the choosing of his manship, any more than his sister had of her womanhood.

   • 2003, Leon Dash, When Children Want Children: The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing, p. 200:

     They were middle-class and, therefore, "had a better attitude towards girls because boys [in Washington Highlands] like beating girls to show their manship.

   • 2007, Kevin P. Novak, Adam Versus Adam, p. 69:

     The manship of Jesus was hid from the eyes of men as completely as the Godship.

2. (archaic) position of honor or respect; dignity, worthiness
3. (archaic) honor shown to a person; homage, respect; courtesy
4. (archaic) manly spirit or conduct; courage, valor, gallantry; chivalry
5. (archaic) human condition

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:manship.

Related terms

• manshiply

Anagrams

• Shipman, shimpan, shipman

English

Etymology

From mean +? -ship.

Noun

meanship (uncountable)

1. Instrumentality.
   • 1934, The Nation's Schools - Volume 14 - Page 42:

     This is one of the main values to be achieved throughout budget administration. Its use as a criterion of procedure enhances the meanship or instrumentality of the budget.

   • 1935, New York State Education - Volume 22 - Page 488:

     This concept of the meanship of business has no place for that type of business administration which, frequently having been made independent of educational administration, seeks to dictate to those concerned with the ultimate educational […]

   • 1935, Official Report - Page 58:

     It is more in harmony with the element of meanship in finance. You will find it increasingly difficult to progress in the integration of education when finance and, more particularly, state aid are working against you.

Anagrams

• minheaps