I found the correction on Pound's use of the word "manfulness" very helpful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pound on the Socratic Method] Reference

Rude stubborn self - help here; a whole world of squalor, rudeness, confused misery and want, yet of nobleness and manfulness withal.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

The young Englishman was cordially sorry, full of concern and personal disappointment, abandoning his own absorbing affairs, and devoting his whole attention to the unfortunate exigency which Lorne dragged out of his breast, in pure manfulness, to lay before him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

That last remark was an unfortunate one, for it brought the speaker back consciously to confront the images which were constantly lurking round him -- only hid when he commanded them out of sight in the manfulness of a spirit that would not be interfered with in its work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference

And Tom was becoming a new boy, though with frequent tumbles in the dirt and perpetual hard battle with himself, and was daily growing in manfulness and thoughtfulness, as every high-couraged and well-principled boy must, when he finds himself for the first time consciously at grips with self and the devil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown's Schooldays]

He only sees his own weakness, and want of life, of spirit, of manfulness, of power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westminster Sermons with a Preface] Reference

The manful childishness, the childish manfulness of such a reply, were impenetrable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference

The chapter was then read with a simple trust and manfulness like that of an ancient patriarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference

I was standing close by my brave Heriot, rather trembling, studious of his manfulness though I was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference

He then bore the dishonor of kilts with what manfulness he could and with a creed which was recited something like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Melody in Silver] Reference

Unspeakable deliverance, and new destiny of thousand-fold expanded manfulness for all men, dawns out of the Future here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latter-Day Pamphlets] Reference

If there was godlessness in turning to politics for a weapon to strike a domestic blow, manfulness in some degree signalized it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

Rude stubborn self-help here; a whole world of squalor, rudeness, confused misery and want, yet of nobleness and manfulness withal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference

I suppose it argues a want of simplicity, of perfect manfulness, to feel this; but few or no women can instinctively feel the difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Altar Fire] Reference

His taste was not an instinct, but the slow result of reflection and of the manfulness with which he always acknowledged to himself his own mistakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

"I'll tell you what I wish, Miss Holabird!" he said suddenly, letting go his moustache, and turning round with sufficient manfulness, and facing her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Folks] Reference

The servant brought rest and charm into that flat; and George went half-daily to a near-by school, taking himself to and fro with the utmost manfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Married Life The True Romance] Reference

Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, would be with them, to give them new life, new holiness, new manfulness; to teach, and guide, and strengthen them for ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on National Subjects] Reference

I fancy I hear them now thanking Hans for his fearless manfulness in saying to his Majesty that the treasure-chest must ever be empty if the old disorder were suffered to prevail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Of course not one in ten thousand can rise as high, but we may all rise somewhat, if not in rank, yet still, what is far better, in spirit, in wisdom, in usefulness, in manfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on National Subjects] Reference

Afterwards she knew it to have been pride -- pride in his great masterly manfulness; in a judgment so sure of itself that it dallied not a moment in stating the terms upon which all future happiness might hang.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cow Puncher] Reference

He had thought of going first to Halleck, and returning the money, but he was willing to give himself the encouragement of Marcia's pleasure, of her forgiveness and her praise in an affair that had its difficulties and would require all his manfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Instance] Reference

Their fidelity to the families of their absent masters during the war was beautiful; while, towards the end of the strife, the enrollment and gallant fighting of 150,000 coloured men (Northern and Southern) in the Federal armies showed their manfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict] Reference

Grave and quiet is the Scottish funeral, with a kind of simple manfulness as of men in the presence of the King of Terrors, but yet possessing that within them which enables every man of them to await without unworthy fear the Messenger who comes but once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference

In the shade of its flourishing growth he stood with braced and selfconfident legs, and since nothing could now be discovered he did not shrink from an encounter with the eyes of judges, and allowed no thoughts of his own to keep him from an attitude of manfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference

In the shade of its flourishing growth he stood with braced and self-confident legs, and since nothing could now be discovered he did not shrink from an encounter with the eyes of judges, and allowed no thoughts of his own to keep him from an attitude of manfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference

France and Great Britain, and it was within the righteous decision of her own policy whether she should declare against either or both; but it is a serious impeachment of a Government's capacity and manfulness when, with such questions as Impressment, the Orders in Council.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1] Reference

Bartholomew, who has developed some grievous complaint of the jaws and teeth -- complaint not known to us more particularly, but dreadful enough from that description -- does his duty also, with that heroic manfulness that has marked his whole career; and somewhere in the ship young.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 8] Reference

Coz that's manfulness, no?.    From Wordnik.com.  [25 Manliest Movies Ever Made] Reference

"No, no, Nancy," he replied with a manful struggle for manfulness, "I-- I.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leatherwood God] Reference

But he, from his exceeding manfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference

"manfulness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Catherine Benincasa] Reference

“From his exceeding manfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Tennyson] Reference